A recent West Virginia University graduate was the recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in recognition of his research accomplishments and his proposal for graduate-level research. Noah Spencer, a biology major in the Eberly College of Arts and ...
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MORGANTOWN -- Spending 17 years underground is bound to leave any insect eager to stretch its wings, and billions of Brood X periodical cicadas are preparing to do just that. “Although there are definitely millions of cicadas per acre in the other broods when they emerge, they don't ...
by Tricia Bishop They’re not locusts, but they might as well be. Billions of beady-eyed cicadas digging their way out of the soil in 15 Eastern states this spring — after 17 years of creepily tunneling around underground — definitely feels like a biblical-type plague on the ...
WVU team unearths manipulative qualities of fungal-infected flyers WVU Today Mind games aren’t exclusive to humans. Cicadas infected with the parasitic fungus Massospora unknowingly engage in trickery with their fellow insects, resulting in effective disease transmission, ...