It was first spotted in California in 2019 in Napa County. Since then, it has been reported in Lake, Sonoma, Mendocino, ...

When Steinkraus realized that a fungus (Eryniopsis lampyridarum) was turning these "pretty" beetles into zombies, he gathered close to 500 living and dead specimens to study them, he said.

Hours later, the fungus triggers the undead beetle to snap open its wings and extend its abdomen. As you might recall, soldier beetles are often in search of a mate.

The fungus grows, robbing tree canopies of water necessary for growth and survival. “MOB was found in a single trap set by ODF in Multnomah County, Oregon in 2018.

We've all heard of Vermont's state mushroom: the bear's head tooth. But are you familiar with these three fungi species ...

The growing damage inflicted by the fingernail-sized beetle and the late blight fungus -- both unwittingly imported with humanitarian food aid during Soviet times -- has sparked fears of an ...

The Shelter Island Reporter quoted the New York Times comment from DeeAnn Reeder, a disease ecologist at Bucknell University, ...

The beetle's color is so striking that words don't really convey the image; you have to see it to appreciate it. The pleasing fungus beetle, Gibbifer californicus, is native to Colorado and parts of ...

Would you want to eat this beetle? Probably not, as it appears to be covered in fungus. That "fungus" is actually hair, however, which the recently discovered insect may use to put off would-be ...

"We don’t know how this will all end up looking in the end." Experts issue warning about 'inevitable' invasion of devastating ...

Study: Fungus behind deadly disease in walnut trees mutates easily, complicating control November 13, 2014 A canker on an eastern black walnut tree. The beetle that carries the fungus causing thousand ...