Officials urged residents to take preventive measures. Health officials sound alarm over concerning discovery made during ...

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...

A fund set up by STRI staff scientist Annette Aiello intends to provide long-term funding for the preservation and management ...

New Zealand is home to a fascinating range of blood-feeding creatures.

Cordyceps may enhance the body's production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a molecule critical for energy delivery to ...

The annual competition, organised by the UK’s leading insect science charity, celebrates the skill and creativity of amateur photographers ...

Nature is full of impostors, and many of them are found in the insect world. Certain species, such as the bee fly or the ant ...

Scientists have discovered a new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, that turns reclusive Irish cave spiders into zombies.

“Our study is an excellent example of using classical chemical ecology techniques to uncover evolutionary adaptations in a completely unexplored insect species. The fascinating results underline the ...

It was found to display the creepy properties seen in zombie-ant fungi, insect-pathogenic fungi that infect and manipulate ...

A new zombie pathogen has been discovered in Ireland. This insidious fungus infects cave spiders and alters their behavior to ...