An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

Colorado potato beetles can decimate your crops - if you let them. Here are the best ways to keep these pests from doing damage in your garden.

This beetle obligingly landed on the arm of an RSPB volunteer outside the J.G ... The larvae of the scarce fungus weevil eat fungi within dead wood and are especially associated with a fungus I ...

The larvae grow, and when they are ready to pupate, they chew their way through the skin of the caterpillar and they spin their cocoons on the caterpillars' backs.

I noticed this fungus in our garden and thought it was an ink cap. ... I think it is some kind of clothes moth larva, but I’m not sure. – Ellie Leonard (12), ... It is a rove beetle.

An invasive beetle that attacks more than 65 species of tree in California has been detected in San Jose, according to Santa Clara County agriculture officials. San Jose is being invaded by a ...

But a series of warm, El Niño winters allowed mountain pine beetle larvae, burrowed inside of trees’ outer bark, ... who adds that the beetles carry a fungus that is also damaging to trees. ...

Polyphagous shot-hole borer is a beetle native to South-East ... It has a symbiotic relationship with the fusarium fungus, farming it inside the tree as a food source for the beetle and its larvae.

The fungus, Fukazawa said, weakens wood, allowing beetle larvae to infiltrate the trees. The diseased trees don’t succumb immediately but are at risk of toppling over.

The snake worm mystery began more than 16 years ago in the summer of 2007, when Maggie Billington spotted thousands of tiny, wormlike larvae crawling across a road in a long line in the town of ...