I was shocked when I saw the images of a parasite fungus being able to control other insects. Welcome to the Zombie Fungus that Mind Controls Insects. The name “zombie-ant” comes from this fungus’s ...

They’re famous for hijacking the brains of some ants. Once the fungus takes over, it directs the ant to climb to a high point on a plant and then bite down on the stem or twig in a macabre death ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: What would you do if a fungus invaded your body, and started consuming you from the inside? It sounds like something out of a horror film ...

Finally, the fungus causes the ant to climb up a plant and lock onto ... Ophiocordyceps salganeicola, a parasite of social cockroaches, is found only in Japan’s Ryukyu Islands.

Matt Kasson has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, USDA ARS and USDA APHIS. Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a ...

This image is a 3-D reconstruction of an ant mandible adductor muscle (red) surrounded by a network of fungal cells (yellow). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy ...

For example, the leafcutter ant fungus produces swollen nutritional reward structures that are otherwise unique in the fungal ...

Schultz has conducted extensive research on the evolutionary history of the ant-fungus symbiosis in the last 35 years. Today, ...