Minnesota health officials have issued a warning on the nation’s “largest known outbreak” of Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII — a sexually transmitted fungus that can cause severe ...

Sporror tales tend to sit on a spectrum of horrific to comedic, and from its very first, abrasively edited title shots, Cold Storage declares you're in for a deeply unserious film. "PAY ATTENTION," ...

Certain parasitic fungi in the genus Ophiocordyceps infect insects and alter their behavior in ways that benefit fungal ...

Exterminators keep getting calls for a reason. Wood-devouring insects, such as beetles, termites, and carpenter ants, are constantly chewing through walls or infecting trees and breaking them down.

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Restricting infection to 2 spider families creates a host-specific threat across 1,300 species. Infected orb spiders counter-intuitively abandon reclusive hiding spots for lethal, high-visibility ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This microscopic, parasitic fungus evolved to hijack ants’ ...

A woman in Long Island recently fell ill with a mosquito-borne virus rarely seen in the United States. She had not traveled abroad. The virus, called chikungunya, causes fever and extreme joint pain.

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them. By Jason P. Dinh Watch your back, DEET. There’s a new ...

A Carolina leaf-roller cricket infected with Cordyceps, the so-called “zombie fungus,” found at Betley Woods at Glacier’s End in southern Johnson County during the summer. The fungus, which takes over ...