In addition to these exotic pest threats, there are many other damaging agents associated with trees.

Water-starved trees are unable to produce their usual pitch or sap, the secretions that tend to protect them from fungi and insects.

Despite the magical benefits of castor oil for your hair, it is well known that the ricinoleic acid from this oil prevents and treats microbes, inf

That event was the worst of the mass extinction events in our planet’s history and saw all complex life cease, leaving microbes and fungi to rule t

A 2000 study conducted in Germany found that tea tree oil exhibits antimicrobial activity against a wide range of bacteria, yeasts and fungi.

More than 3 million people are affected by pneumonia annually, an inflammatory condition of the lung usually caused by viruses, fungi or bacteria.

If you look at soil, it appears to be dead but that is the farthest from the truth.

Cinnamon has an anti fungal property, that is, it treats all types of fungi.

It’s effective against cavity causing bacteria and has antibacterial properties as well. It kills bacteria, fungi, and viruses.

Truffle season is here and, as much as I would love to pretend I’ve been scouring British woodland for fungi, mine came in a jar, courtesy of the l

When you have a build-up of fungi and bacteria in your body it can manifest in a black tongue.

There are mushrooms and then there are fungi, essentially the same thing (mushrooms are the reproductive parts of fungi), but while we humans think

Eagle Eyes: Challenge your kids to seek out the smallest bits of nature they can detect, such as twigs, dew droplets or icicles, tiny bugs, fungi,

This is one cool video to watch! Check it out below.

Amazing fungi timelapse sequence from Planet Earth II’s third episode, Jungles is simply incredible, check it out below.

This is the most famous French blue cheese.

A study of GMO cotton varieties shows they disrupt an important beneficial soil fungus, writes Eva Sirinathsinghji, apparently due to the Bt insect

A study was conducted by Bässler et al (2015) just last year focusing on one lichen specie over 16 countries showing that fungi can select for spec

As Emile explains, falling leaves pile up on the forest floor.

As an arbuscular mycorrhizal species, it produces arbuscules penetrating a host’s cell wall.

The Index Fungorum, the global fungal nomenclator coordinated and supported by the Index Fungorum Partnership, contains names of fungi (including y

The cinnamon important oil and the enzyme present in honey which produces hydrogen peroxide, are the 2 strongest anti-microbial parts of this mix t

This year, it won a national design award for social impact.

Ants have previously been observed farming fungi for food, but this is the first study to show the insects cultivating plants Ants found in the Pac