“Actually, we can hypothesize that they keep the forest in balance,” he added, pointing to the case of the zombie ant fungi.

A newly discovered species of fungus takes control of cave-dwelling spiders in Ireland and Northern Ireland, similar to the ...

It’s the stuff of horror - parasites that take control of a hapless victim’s brain before killing it and using the corpse to ...

The scientists concluded that the "infected spiders exhibit behavioral changes similar to those reported for zombie ants," ...

After studying the samples, Dr. Evans determined that the cave spiders had been hijacked by a fungus he dubbed Gibellula ...

A new zombie pathogen has been discovered in Ireland. This insidious fungus infects cave spiders ... This is just one of many horror stories in the insect world. A certain wasp species hijacks ...

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Chinese scientists first became interested in the green zombie’s potential in the ... another type of insect-killing fungus, for instance, can generate three times as many as the spores to ...

It was found to display the creepy properties seen in zombie-ant fungi, insect-pathogenic fungi that infect and manipulate the behavior of ants. The idea inspired popular culture such as in the ...

“Actually, we can hypothesize that they keep the forest in balance,” he added, pointing to the case of the zombie ant fungi. Scientists have documented the lethal parasite regulating the ...