When Entomophaga grylli infects locusts or grasshoppers, they climb to the tops of plants before their death. The zombie-ant ...

Locusts or grasshoppers infected by Entomophaga grylli causes the diseased insects climbing to plant tops before death. The ...

This week, see zombie fungi trapped in an amber fossil, explore the sun’s hidden south pole, meet tool-using whales that ...

Many fungi, including most that cause lawn diseases, have very small fruiting bodies that are hardly noticeable, and they don’t produce typical mushrooms or obvious fruiting structures.

The white color of the fruiting body itself darkens upon bruising and with age. Like any other fungus, encountering a bleeding tooth increases with time spent looking for it.

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

Artillery Fungus. The artillery fungus, Sphaerobolus spp. may become problematic in mulch, due to the production and release of spores. This fungus produces very small, inconspicuous cup shaped ...