Wild bees across the west face a growing threat from microscopic parasites. Last week an Oregon researcher visited USU’s Ecology Center to discuss her findings.

This plant, called a fairy lantern, is a parasite that steals all its energy and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that dwell ...

Bees that land on short, wide flowers can fly away with an upset stomach. The parasite (Crithidia bombi) is transmitted when the insects accidentally ingest contaminated bee feces, which “tends to ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

image: Having more flowers and maintaining diverse bee communities could help reduce the spread of bee parasites, according to a new study. view more Having more flowers and maintaining diverse bee ...

North Carolina State University researchers show that the shape of flowers has the biggest effect on how parasites are transmitted to bees, an important consideration for declining populations of our ...

Balanophora may look like a mushroom, but instead of being a fungus, it's a parasitic plant with rare traits that puzzle ...

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in ...

A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive.

This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (DEB-0841862, DEB-0743535/0742923 and DEB-1258 096/1256817). Search for information on ‘self-medication,’ and you’ll likely find ...

Measure for Measure Act 3, scene 2. I have a buddy named L. L. Gaddy…he goes by “Chick”…and he is one of the best botanists in the Southeast. He’s discovered a number of new plant species, authored ...