A widely-used agricultural chemical sprayed on fruits and vegetables to prevent fungal disease is also killing beneficial ...

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

Every summer in London, millions of winged ants emerge in a synchronized spectacle known as "Flying Ant Day"—a brief frenzy ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

Cretaceous amber has pushed back the evolutionary timeline of one of nature’s most bizarre parasitic relationships: the infamous “zombie-ant” fungi. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

A stunning amber fossil discovery reveals ancient "zombie fungi" that controlled insects' behavior millions of years ago.

Scientists have made a haunting and oddly poetic discovery that shows that even tens of millions of years ago, life — and ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins announced plans to open a new sterile fly facility at an inactive Air Force base in south ...

The flesh-eating The flesh-eating New World screwworm fly is spreading north through Central America toward the US after ...

From a biodiversity perspective, greater size diversity among insects could increase ecological resilience by expanding the range of available niches. However, introducing significantly larger insects ...