Hotter, drier conditions in North America will limit the growth of a fungus — also invasive to ... individual species of plants and animals. "A small amount of climate change can have a big ...

White-nose syndrome caused millions of bat deaths, and scientists are sounding the alarm that a second fungus could be ...

A fungus gnat is a small flying insect commonly found in and around ... their larvae can feed on plant roots and cause ...

Many plants and crops rely on insects to pollinate them so they ... worldwide -- have evolved to be pollinated by a small fly called the fungus gnat. "Although they are important pollinators ...

Creators of the franchise didn't look far for inspiration — the series is based off a real-life species of fungus that performs a kind of "mind control" on its insect hosts. Ophiocordyceps ...

There are three major types of diseases that affect blue spruce trees: needlecasts, tip blights, and canker diseases. The two ...

there had been a few reports published in relatively small journals, describing summit disease in wild fruit flies, or Drosophila melanogaster, the canonical model insect. Yet these reports had ...

READ MORE: Rare parasitic cicada fungus confirmed in Missouri, turns the insects into hypersexual ... in response to cicada emergence." A small problem is complicating research: Not only do ...