In a recent academic article we examined whether entomopathogenic fungi could help to keep South Africa’s apple trees safe from woolly apple aphid. These fungi are naturally found in all soils ...

Sir David Attenborough thereby coined this disease struck creature as the Gibellula attenboroughii, a disease where the ...

After posting images of his find online, he was told the spiders had been infected with a ‘zombie parasite’ – the entomopathogenic fungus. The fungi infects the brains of spiders and then ...

"Zombie spiders" have now joined tarantulas in the UK, according to researchers. Sightings have been made of newly discovered fungus crazy creatures in the country. The white-foamed spiders are ...

Sightings have been made of newly discovered fungus crazy creatures in the country. The white-foamed spiders are infected by a parasitic, entomopathogenic fungus which takes control of both their ...

After posting images of his find online, he was told the spiders had been infected with a ‘zombie parasite’ – the entomopathogenic fungus. Gareth Jenkins was working in a garden in Wanstead ...

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After posting his discovery online, Jenkins was told that the creatures were infected with a ‘zombie parasite’ – an entomopathogenic fungus which infects the brains of insects. And the worst ...