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There is some kind of white fungus that appears on the lowest fruit on the vines, I guess because it's so close to the moist soil. It turns out that ...
Yellow-white fungus grows inside the cicadas, filling their insides and pushing out against their abdomens. One by one, the rings that compose the back halves of their bodies slough off and fall ...
A mysterious fungus that has killed millions of bats in the eastern United States and left caves littered with their tiny carcasses has arrived in Northern California and appears poised to spread ...
A fungus called Massospora produces an amphetamine in some cicadas and makes them lose control. Cicadas that are infected lose their genitals — and they don't even notice.
A fungus that has killed millions of bats nationwide has found its way into Louisiana, though it has yet to sicken any bats in the state, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesperson said Tuesday.
Scientists have learned that another species of fungus found in Europe and Asia causes white-nose disease, which has ravaged bat populations in the United States and Canada. A cluster of greater ...
A fungus that causes the deadly white-nose syndrome in bats is now in Colorado. Researchers have confirmed the presence of Pseudogymnoascus destructans in a bat from Bent's Old Fort near La Junta.
White nose syndrome (WNS) was discovered – the first time confirmed in the state – via samples taken from two live bats and two found dead in caves in Lincoln and De Baca counties, which are ...
A fungus began spreading among bats in North America in 2007, causing a disease called white-nose syndrome, which marks the animals with patches of pale fuzz before killing them.
For more than a decade, bats in North America have faced a devastating crisis as white-nose syndrome has swept across the eastern United States and Canada. The fungal disease has felled millions ...
Here’s what we know about white nose syndrome and the threat it poses to bats in New Mexico. A deadly fungus threatening bat populations across the country has been discovered in two New Mexico ...