“Most spiders that are web-building spiders very much like to ... pointing to the case of the zombie ant fungi. Scientists have documented the lethal parasite regulating the insect population ...

Armed with one of the most painful stings on the planet, tarantula hawks are a spider's worst nightmare ... beaten only by the South American bullet ant, Paraponera clavata. The pain from a bullet ant ...

The fungus lures them out of their webs before instigating an untimely death and then uses the spiders’ corpses to spread its spores. The newly discovered species, named Gibellula attenboroughii, acts ...