A fungal disease could soon bring infected cicadas to your backyard. Massospora cicadina is a fungal pathogen that infects ...

This is a sexually transmitted zombie disease ... that once the fungus takes over a male cicada’s body, their testes are the first to go, sterilizing the insect before killing it.

She and one of her students found that the earwig—an insect that feeds on other insects ... De Fine Licht is keen for the zombie fly-fungus system to be taught in schools, to draw in younger ...

Rise of the Zombie Bugs, by Mindy Weisberger, is a non-fiction book that borrows from popular culture to make one of the most ...

In my research, I’ve collected and handled hundreds of living and dead zombie cicadas, as well as countless fungus-infected insects, spiders, and millipedes. I’ve dissected hundreds of specimens and ...

In a surprisingly large number of cases, insects are not acting of their own free will in ... While Ophiocordyceps is likely the best-known zombie fungus, it’s certainly not the only one. “This ...

In "The Last of Us," cordyceps — a real fungus that infects insects — evolves into a harmful pathogen for humans due to a warming climate. In reality, "zombie-ant fungus" or Ophiocordyceps ...

As Brian Lovett, an insect pathologist at Cornell University ... Either way, it is undeniable that zombie fungi and their morbidly intimate partnerships with their hosts have taken up permanent ...

The scientists concluded that the "infected spiders exhibit behavioral changes similar to those reported for zombie ants," referring to an insect-pathogenic fungus that forces infected ants to ...

A stalk erupts from the dead insect’s head and produces spores, which fall onto healthy ants below, starting the cycle again. The zombie cicada fungus, Massospora cicadina, has also received a ...