A species of wood-eating fungus didn’t need a brain to pass a cognitive test with flying colors, and researchers say this ...

This fungus attacks the roots and lower trunks of trees that tend to be weakened from stressors such as drought, soil ...

Soil pH may be an important factor in the growth of a destructive fungus emerging in Western Canadian canola crops, new University of Alberta research shows. First found in Manitoba canola crops ...

Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even ...

This isn’t because fungi are insignificant; according to the U.N. Decade on Restoration, fungi are important contributors to soil health and soil carbon sequestration, or the process of removing ...

It doesn't hunt on the ground, so it's very surprising that this species would come into contact with a fungus that is found in caves and in the soil," said Arnold. According to Fish and Wildlife ...

If the soil is dry, the now empty exoskeleton of the caterpillar emerges from its hole. As it does so, the fungal reproductive structures are often lost and all you see remaining is the empty husk.

A citrus cicada nymph infected with Ophiocordyceps sobolifera. The nymph lives underground, but the fungus ensures that it ‘summits’ to just below the soil line, so that its stalks (pink) and spores ...

Bleeding tooth fungus looks like a ghoulish forest crime scene. This type of mushroom called Hydnellum peckii also goes by “devil’s tooth fungus” or the much more pleasant sounding ...