Massospora consumes cicadas from the inside out then drives them to mate—in the process making infected males more attractive ...
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 ...
An epic amount of cicadas are expected to infiltrate the U.S. soon, with multiple broods emerging from their current earthen ...
NPR's Juana Summers talks with mycologist Matt Kasson about a strange fungus that is threatening certain broods of periodical cicadas.
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 ...
The Texas dairy farm worker infected with H5N1 bird flu was not wearing respiratory or eye protection and had been exposed to cattle that appeared to have the same symptoms as those in a nearby farm ...
After two bats were found in Longmont and Boulder last month with white nose syndrome, a fungal disease that has decimated ...