“[Caterpillar fungus is] more likely to be found in a luxury ... During the summer season, the ghost moth caterpillars hibernate underground. This is when the airborne spores of O.

It sounds like something out of a horror film, but that's actually what happens to a certain type of baby moth. The fungus eats its way through the helpless moth larvae and then sprouts out of ...

This fungus has kept moth numbers in check for decades, but now its decline is tipping the balance in favor of widespread forest destruction. Researchers confirm that recent moth outbreaks are ...

The clothes moths belong to a family of the Lepidoptera known as the Tineidae - the fungus moths, which mainly feed on detritus, fungi and lichens. The larvae of clothes moths are adapted to feed on ...

It is not a male anything. This is a female chaffinch, which appears to be suffering from leucism, causing the plumage to ...

lxxiii, of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, will you permit me in the interests of scientific pursuit to remark that up to the present the moth which produces the caterpillar attacked by the fungus ...

It sounds like something out of a horror film, but that's actually what happens to a certain type of baby moth. The fungus eats its way through the helpless moth larvae and then sprouts out of ...

such as the brush moth Orgyia antiqua, and poplar specialists, such as the poplar leaf beetle Chrysomela tremulae. "It was particularly exciting for us to see that the fungus can produce an ...