The fly can lay eggs inside the ant’s head. Fly maggots that hatch ... despite carrying and nourishing a growing parasite inside its head, life is pretty much business as usual; the ant looks ...

A female fly begins by staking out a worker ... it was on a death march. And the parasite was in the driver's seat. "Parasitized ants were highly mobile after they left the nest and ultimately ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said May 11 that it is suspending imports of livestock through Mexico because of New World ...

We got an idea of the fungal genes that turn on during manipulation, and which ant genes turn on or off at the same time ... Yet these reports had largely fallen into obscurity, and this fungus-fly ...

The fungus that zombifies humanity in the show is based on Ophiocordyceps, a real fungal group that infects ants, takes over their brains and ... The Surprising Science of Parasitic Mind-Control. Host ...

A parasite, the New World Screwworm, is actually a fly. Female screwworm flies lay eggs in wounds or body openings of mammals ...