The most pervasive is a fungus caused by an invasive beetle species that harmed a California sycamore in front of my home ...

In a new study published in Ecology Letters, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel, Germany, report on the influence of an endophytic fungus of the ...

By Jack Motz With the infestation of the southern pine beetle on Long Island entering its 12th year, a separate insect and a ...

such as the poplar leaf beetle Chrysomela tremulae. "It was particularly exciting for us to see that the fungus can produce an alkaloid that we can detect in the plant matrix and thus use as a ...

such as the poplar leaf beetle Chrysomela tremulae. "It was particularly exciting for us to see that the fungus can produce an alkaloid that we can detect in the plant matrix and thus use as a ...

I noticed this fungus in our garden and thought it was ... wood wasp but it has no wings – so is it some sort of longhorn beetle? – Gene Draper, Bridgetown, Co Wexford It is a rove beetle.

In 2021, a BBC film crew first stumbled upon the eerie sight of a cave-dwelling spider covered in a strange white fungus while shooting a nature documentary. Later identified as Gibellula ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — The discovery of a powerful 'weapon' used by many disease-causing fungi to infect and destroy major food crop staples, such as rice and corn, could offer new strategies to ...

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Using the new approach, the research team--which also includes UBC's Joerg Bohlmann, Colette Breuil and Richard Hamelin--has compiled the first complete genome sequence of a fungus (Grosmannia ...

A successful beetle-fungus attack ultimately causes tree death. Now, researchers from UBC and the BC Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences Centre have conducted a detailed genome analysis and identified ...