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.

The idea of zombies has fascinated humans for centuries. Real-life parasites have been taking over the minds of insects for ...

Apr. 25, 2025 — A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little ...

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 ...

Cinnamon is a great addition to desserts and coffees, but the spice can also be used to protect your garden from mould and ...

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 ...

A trial of people who wore dentures determined that supplementing with probiotics decreased fungus ... natural remedies for candidiasis, do so only in addition to antifungal medication and only after ...