In particular, soldier beetle larvae eat grasshopper eggs ... not surprisingly, zombie-ant fungus. Turns out similar pathogenic fungi (plural of fungus) can be found in ants, flies, cicadas ...

De Fine Licht is keen for the zombie fly-fungus system to be taught in schools, to draw in younger science enthusiasts. He and Edwards recently published instructions on how to observe the zombify ...

A long spike shoots from the insect’s back — the calling card of the “zombie” fungus that killed this tiny creature. Today this ant resides among caterpillars, spiders and beetles who all ...

The Cordyceps fungus has evolved a terrifying ... white-spotted flower chafer larvae, and Japanese rhinoceros beetles, with brown rice as a control. Then, they cultured Cordyceps on them for ...

TL;DR: A new fungus, G. attenboroughii, discovered in Northern Ireland, infects spiders, causing zombie-like effects similar to the zombie-ant fungus. It alters spider behavior to spread spores ...

The team performed experiments in a lab on captive bark beetles and samples of Norway spruce bark. The experiments found that the fungus breaks down monoterpenes–chemicals present in tree bark ...

Cordyceps militaris, also known as caterpillar fungus, zombifies ground-dwelling insect larvae. They feast on the critter until it dies and, when it’s more mush than insect, a stalk-like ...