Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Sensing environmental temperature is crucial for the development and survival of animals. Insects such as fruit flies have ...

Key Takeaways Neem oil naturally controls pests like aphids and thrips but should be used carefully to protect bees and ...

Small black flies buzzing around your house plants can be bothersome and unsightly. Although they are generally harmless, fly flies can grow immensely in number in no time. Watering your plants less ...

A common kitchen staple, cinnamon can also do wonders in the garden. Cinnamon can be used for everything from helping seeds ...

He emphasizes the importance of "the right conditions" — moist, mild weather — for optimal mushroom growth, and notes ... a professional forager for fungi. He has been registered since 2011 ...

In "The Last of Us," cordyceps — a real fungus that infects insects — evolves into a harmful ... been correlated with a boost in the fungus' growth and spread, experts say.

The study demonstrates that this RNAi approach shuts down vital fungal genes, thereby inhibiting pathogen growth - a groundbreaking step in ... It uses specialized RNA molecules, such as small ...

The discoveries show that diversity in this genus is much greater than previously thought and that some of its species are at risk of disappearing as old-growth forest is logged. Although fungi of ...

Trees that are healthy can be killed outright by this disease; if not, they are weakened and predisposed to attacks by other fungi or insects ... delays growth and causes mortality of longleaf ...

But most insects are too small for these techniques to be successful ... those plants experienced big boosts in growth following a period of unusually heavy rainfall. That burst of growth ...

Cordyceps militaris, also known as caterpillar fungus, zombifies ground-dwelling insect larvae ... can thwart cancer cell growth. In the new study published in the journal FEBS Letters ...