Flower-scented fungus lures mosquitoes to their deaths using nature’s scent trick, offering a safe solution against deadly diseases.

In the battle against mosquito-borne diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of people each year, scientists turned to an unlikely ally: a fungus that smells like flowers.

Researchers from the Natural History Museum and Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University (SLCU) have identified a new ...

The paper S. H. McArt et al., “Floral scent mimicry and vector-pathogen associations in a pseudoflower-inducing plant pathogen system,” PLOS ONE, 11:e0165761, 2016. Unwanted company Shriveled, sickly ...

HONOLULU (AP) - In years past, hula students would make pilgrimages into ohia forests on Hawaii's Big Island to gather blossoms and leaves from the trees to adorn dancers' lei, hair, hands and feet ...

To prevent tar spot, mostly you just have to hope that the weather this coming spring is not wet enough for the fungus to ...

Researchers from the Natural History Museum and the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge (SLCU) have ...

A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.

Q. My camellia flowers are getting eaten at the base as they are opening. I don’t see any bugs and would like to know what is causing it and how to fix it. Camellia flower blight is caused by a fungus ...

Natural History Museum and University of Cambridge researchers have discovered a new species of ancient symbiotic fungus in a ...