While filming a TV documentary inside an old Victorian gunpowder store in Northern Ireland, scientists made an intriguing ...

Researchers attribute their predilection for ants to the possibility that preying spiders are especially averse to them. Living with the enemy The jumping spider Phintella piatensis hangs out with ...

Scientists identified a new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, infecting cave spiders in Ireland. The fungus manipulates ...

Armed with one of the most painful stings on the planet, tarantula hawks are a spider's worst nightmare ... beaten only by the South American bullet ant, Paraponera clavata. The pain from a bullet ant ...

It was found to display the creepy properties seen in zombie-ant fungi, insect-pathogenic fungi that infect and manipulate ...

Only twenty pages are here devoted to the ants, yet we find several observations ... With specific descriptions of the Spiders, by the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge. (Reeve and Co., 1874.) ...

The findings lead researchers to believe that the fungus infected the spiders, similar to the way O. unilateralis infected the ants in Brazil. The fungus likely propelled the spiders to leave their ...