It might be time to put away the ant and roach traps and drag out the fungus. A University of Florida ecologist has patented a strain of fungus that kills fire, carpenter and other types of ants ...

Fire ants did not sting Ponce de Leon on his trek through Florida. They did not torment Henry Flagler’s crews as they put down rails to West Palm Beach. When Al Capone visited his Miami retreat ...

A University of Helsinki team led by Nick Bos found that when Formica fusca ants are exposed to a fungal pathogen called Beauveria bassiana, they’ll deliberately consume harmful reactive oxygen ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 69, No. 2 (Jun., 1986), pp. 285-292 (8 pages) A basal medium consisting of oatmeal agar was superior to seven other media for isolation of Metarhizium anisopliae and ...

A Mississippi Delta native strain (NI8 ARSEF8889) of Beauveria bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill. (Cordycipitaceae), isolated from Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois) (Hemiptera: Miridae), was tested on ...