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Zombie Ant Fungus: The Chemistry of Control

"We've known you 300 million years..."

This performance traces the strange choreography between host and parasite, where chemistry becomes behaviour, and control has no single centre.

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The Ant That Climbed

There is no drama at first. No struggle. Just a small deviation...

The zombie ant doesn’t teach us that free will is an illusion. It teaches something quieter, and more demanding: that agency is fragile, distributed, and deeply entangled with the systems we inhabit.

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Is Cordyceps Evil — Or Are We Just Projecting?

Morality still matters. But it comes second.

When people first learn about cordyceps — the parasitic fungus that hijacks an ant’s body, forces it to climb, bite down on a leaf, and then kills it to release spores — the reaction is almost universal: that’s evil. But that reaction tells us more about us than it does about the fungus.

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We Are Already Thinking Together

We are not starting from zero.
We are remembering how to listen.

Much of how we imagine intelligence is shaped by a simple idea: that thinking happens inside individual minds. That agency lives in brains. That intention begins and ends with us. But what if that picture is incomplete?

Climate

Bugged Out News!

-A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides, says the Guardian -Scientists have discovered a remarkable new species in Australia’s rainforests – Acrophylla alt, which is the heaviest recorded stick insect in the country. More information […]

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Five minutes with our Founder

More Insects Now

We caught up with Pestival founder, Bridget Nicholls to find out why insects are so important to her. And us

Climate News

Do It For Yourself

If not for the insects

Leading entomologist delivers sharp warning about the future of insects and ourselves

Climate News

Awash With Pesticides

Go pesticide free

It’s time we all take a chemical free leaf out of Aldi’s book and go pesticide free

Climate News

Reverse Insect Decline

Calling all slacktivists!

Reverse insect decline .. by being lazy? Calling all slacktivists!

Technology News

Bugged phones

Insect upgrades

Inspired by anti glare moth eyes, cricket hair mics and wide angle ant vision, smart phones are improving

Climate News

Parliament go Anti-Pesticide

Government joins the fight

House of Commons hold debate about insect decline and pesticide use

Climate

Insect Armageddon

Time's up

Recent studies show an alarming decline in insect populations. What does that mean for us?