Massospora consumes cicadas from the inside out then drives them to mate—in the process making infected males more attractive ...
NPR's Juana Summers talks with mycologist Matt Kasson about a strange fungus that is threatening certain broods of periodical cicadas.
Turns out humans, aren’t the only creature that can ride the psychedelic wave that comes with ingesting fungus. Except the side effects for cicadas, a flying pest, are quite deadly. We are ...
A deadly fungus could destroy most of the world’s supply of Cavendish bananas, but a company in North Carolina's Research ...
Billions of cicadas are about to be "controlled like zombies" into spreading a strange fungus that "hijacks their bodies and behaviour", according to a report. In a development worthy of a horror ...
While Alabama only has to bear the brunt of one brood, the cicadas we see may be infected with a strange, somewhat ...
An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian flu is ravaging the U.S. food supply, infecting birds in all 50 states and spreading ...
America’s most-consumed fruit is at risk from a fungal disease. Researchers in North Carolina are on a mission to save ...
Leptospirosis is a bacterial infection spread via contact with contaminated animal urine, in cities most often from rats. The New York City health department issued an advisory after six human ...
After two bats were found in Longmont and Boulder last month with white nose syndrome, a fungal disease that has decimated ...