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 ...

The country has already closed the southern border to cattle imports for the next few weeks to try and get ahead of the issue ...

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

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 ...

They can also transmit several diseases including Stephanofilariasis, a condition caused by a small parasite ... the much-hated fire ant even helps to reduce the numbers of horn flies in the pasture ...

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 ...