Regular inspection is essential, preferably once a week, with a magnifying lens for little pests. It helps to foresee ...

In this Q&A presentation, UQ's Centre for Crop Science director Prof Ian Godwin helps uncover some dirt on what the real ...

Rise of the Zombie Bugs” explores how parasites create real-life zombies in the insect and invertebrate world.

If you're trying to avoid using chemicals in your garden, but are in need of a fungicide, there are natural ingredients you ...

It’s a chilling sight: once-bustling wetlands falling eerily silent, their frog and salamander choruses replaced by a ...

The invasive spongy moth, a destroyer of northeastern forests, has a natural foe in a Japanese fungus that needs certain ...

1 Affiliated Hospital of Shandong Second Medical University, Weifang, China 2 Department of Hematology and Oncology, Shenzhen Children’s Hospital, Shenzhen, China Chimeric antigen receptor natural ...

Unsuspecting ants go about their normal routines until they encounter microscopic spores of a parasitic fungus from the Ophiocordyceps ... The fungi’s ability to precisely control insect behavior has ...

Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or caterpillar — into zombie-like puppets that act against their own interests.

There are so many examples in the natural world of this type of behavior manipulation — where there are these parasites that not only infect and kill their hosts, but along the way actively ...