The year was 2013, and the release of a hotly anticipated zombie-apocalypse video game was on the horizon. The game, called The Last of Us, invited players to explore what then seemed a fanciful ...

Renowned cicada expert Gene Kritsky says the fungal disease takes a while to manifest and grow inside of cicadas, who typically have a six-week lifespan above ground. Typically, cicadas will see the ...

Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, tens of thousands of large bugs have descended on Great Smoky Mountains National Park along the North Carolina-Tennessee border, according to the National Park ...

SPAIN’S airports have been overrun by homeless camps, crime and filthy insect infestations – prompting traveller warnings and ...

Ammon News - After lying dormant for nearly two decades, billions of sex-crazed cicadas will be emerging from their ...

Millions of periodical cicadas are emerging across the US after 13 or 17 years underground—some infected by a fungus that ...

A scholar at Virginia Tech is conducting research using a fungus to control populations of corn earworm -- one of the world's ...

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In Rise of the Zombie Bugs, Mindy Weisberger zooms in on how parasites hijack the brains of their tiny host animals ...

Cicadas don’t bite or sting and are more of a nuisance than a danger. Cicadas aren't poisonous if a pet ingests a few. But ...

If cicada-spotters are patient, they could pinpoint a zombie or two. But even if they don’t find any, the sheer number of ...