Massospora consumes cicadas from the inside out then drives them to mate—in the process making infected males more attractive ...
An epic amount of cicadas are expected to infiltrate the U.S. soon, with multiple broods emerging from their current earthen ...
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 ...
Naturalists have already spotted the first arrivals in a rare phenomenon during which cicadas will emerge across more than a ...
NPR's Juana Summers talks with mycologist Matt Kasson about a strange fungus that is threatening certain broods of periodical cicadas.
While Alabama only has to bear the brunt of one brood, the cicadas we see may be infected with a strange, somewhat ...
Cicadas are beginning to come out in the Upstate. Find out what to expect, and also read about "zombie" cicadas.
An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian flu is ravaging the U.S. food supply, infecting birds in all 50 states and spreading ...
A fungus that is devastating populations of frogs and toads around the world may be vulnerable to a virus that can infect it, and that could be genetically engineered to kill it The Panamanian ...
After two bats were found in Longmont and Boulder last month with white nose syndrome, a fungal disease that has decimated ...