Join the SciFri Book Club email newsletter ... on a project for the American Museum of Natural History where I first came across the zombie ant fungus ophiocordyceps. And that just blew– that blew my ...

There are a wide array of other ants besides carpenter ants, winter ants and fire ants – Massachusetts has plenty. Meet the ...

Purple Man is one of the best Daredevil villains of all time.

It was found to display the creepy properties seen in zombie-ant fungi, insect-pathogenic ... to the publication of a number ...

Ants communicate and cooperate by secreting pheromones, or scent chemicals, that can alert others to danger or lead them to a promising food source. They typically eat nectar, seeds, fungus ...

These ants aren’t eating the leaves they carry—they use plant matter to cultivate a special fungus in their underground chambers. It’s like farming, but instead of growing vegetables, they grow the ...

Leaf and grass cutter ants, as their names suggest, use leaf and grass cuttings to cultivate a unique fungus within their nest. Each piece is chewed up and mixed with the fungus; the fungus is ...

Scientists probing one of the mysteries of the insect world identified a powerful chemical weapon used in the arms race between fungus-farming leafcutter ants and the parasites that plague them.

A fungus not yet known to modern science was recently discovered in a remote savanna in the Northern Territory. Zombie ants have been discovered in the Aussie outback. A fungus not yet known to ...

University of Western Australia myrmecologist Dr François Brassard found the ants, which had been parasitised, possessed and then consumed by a fungus, while on an expedition as part of the Bush ...