Moose are seriously tough animals with a solid build and impressive survival skills. Put simply, not many animals can take on ...

A chilling map showing the bedbug hotspots around the US is enough to make even the hardiest reader's skin crawl. Bedbugs ...

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

Ever since a few enterprising bed bugs hopped off a bat and attached themselves to a Neanderthal walking out of a cave 60,000 ...

University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an ...

Parasitology is the scientific discipline concerned with the study of the biology of parasites and parasitic diseases, including the distribution, biochemistry, physiology, molecular biology ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered how Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito bite, can hide from the body’s immune system ...

The parasitic fungus species belongs to a group that infects their invertebrate hosts and takes control before killing them as part of their spore-spreading mechanisms. Other species include ...

a parasitic fungus found growing on a Hemipteran shieldbug. As in the case of 'Beverly', the fungus infects its host organism and effectively hijacks its body as part of its reproductive cycle. After ...

Farrokhzadeh chose the fungus because it only infects insects in real life, and the specific strain B. bassiana-GHA because it’s endophytic, meaning it can live inside plant tissues without causing ...

Namely, Ophiocordyceps nutans: a parasitic fungus that was found growing from a Hemipteran shieldbug, demonstrating the remarkable lifecycle of Cordyceps fungi. Once infected, the insect host is ...