While filming a TV documentary inside an old Victorian gunpowder store in Northern Ireland, scientists made an intriguing ...

Scientists have discovered a fungus that turns spiders into “zombies,” luring the arachnids out of their lairs before killing ...

Scientists have documented the lethal parasite regulating the insect population ... presence of mycoparasites observed eating the zombie spider fungus, “demonstrating that these spiders are ...

The scientists concluded that the "infected spiders exhibit behavioral changes similar to those reported for zombie ants," referring to an insect-pathogenic fungus that forces infected ants to ...

A new zombie pathogen has been discovered in Ireland. This insidious fungus infects cave spiders ... This is just one of many horror stories in the insect world. A certain wasp species hijacks ...

Researchers have found a new species of fungi that infects spiders turning them into 'zombies' in Ireland and Northern ...

A new species of parasitic fungus has been discovered turning orb-weaving spiders into zombies in the British Isles.