Massospora consumes cicadas from the inside out then drives them to mate—in the process making infected males more attractive ...

Billions of cicadas are about to be "controlled like zombies" into spreading ... several US states. Some of them will be "zombie cicadas" that are infected by the sexually transmitted fungus ...

Turns out humans, aren’t the only creature that can ride the psychedelic wave that comes with ingesting fungus. Except the side effects for cicadas, a flying pest, are quite deadly. We are ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with mycologist Matt Kasson about a strange fungus that is threatening certain broods of periodical cicadas.

A deadly fungus could destroy most of the world’s supply of Cavendish bananas, but a company in North Carolina's Research ...

While Alabama only has to bear the brunt of one brood, the cicadas we see may be infected with a strange, somewhat ...

America’s most-consumed fruit is at risk from a fungal disease. Researchers in North Carolina are on a mission to save ...

An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian flu is ravaging the U.S. food supply, infecting birds in all 50 states and spreading ...

After two bats were found in Longmont and Boulder last month with white nose syndrome, a fungal disease that has decimated ...

(Credit: Brian Gratwicke / CC BY 2.0 DEED) A deadly fungus that is ... to see how different strains of fungus differ in places like Africa, Brazil, and the U.S., just like people study different ...

Americans eat nearly 27 pounds per person every year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A deadly fungus could destroy ... banana plants are spread out in a room about the size ...