Spiders, their venom and their silk pose many unsolved questions for science. A new study provides clues to better understand these eight-legged creatures. Bioscientists at Trier University have ...

The findings lead researchers to believe that the fungus infected the spiders, similar to the way O. unilateralis infected the ants in Brazil. The fungus likely propelled the spiders to leave their ...

Only twenty pages are here devoted to the ants, yet we find several observations ... With specific descriptions of the Spiders, by the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge. (Reeve and Co., ...

A study investigated the identity of the fungus found on a spider during the filming of the BBC Winterwatch series in Northern Ireland. It was found to display the creepy properties seen in zombie-ant ...

As social insects, ants organize colonies and form complex societies, but they also cohabitate with a wide variety of species, including mites, spiders, and flies, within their nests. One trick is ...

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Bioscientists at Trier University have now succeeded in revealing the complete blueprint of three unusual spiders: the yellow sac spider (the only venomous spider in Germany), the feather-legged ...

These normally reclusive spiders had left their lairs or webs and migrated to die in exposed situations: essentially, mirroring the behaviour of ants infected by fungi of the genus Ophiocordyceps ...