If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

Ambrosia beetles represent a remarkable example of insect–fungal mutualism, with their unique practices of cultivating symbiotic fungi within specialised structures known as mycangia. These ...

A group of researchers are on the brink of a promising sustainable solution to coffee leaf rust, one of the coffee industry’s ...

Simon Claringbold picked and ate wild mushrooms from his garden. Days later, he thought he was taking his last breath.

The colorful pigment extracted from the lac insect may actually be produced by a symbiotic yeast-like organism living inside the insect, a new study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.

The two insects were likely killed by the fungi before getting trapped in the sticky tree resin that ultimately forms amber, said Araújo, noting that most entomopathogenic fungi kill their hosts ...