Parasite of the Day

Deserts can be challenging environments to live in, doubly so when you are a parasitic plant that has to latch onto the roots of a specific ...

Rickia wasmannii is a fungus that lives on ants, and when it comes to ants and fungi most people usually think of Ophiocordyceps , i.e. the...

The lancet fluke ( Dicroceolium dendriticum ) is one of the most well-known and oft-cited example of parasite host manipulation. But in mos...

The Cordyceps fungus has become a fixture in popular media, at least as the go-to comparison/cause for fictional human zombies. The nominal ...

There are variety of mites which live with ants , but many of them are not well-studied. Most of them are either phoretic mites which hitch ...

There are many examples of parasites altering the behaviour of their hosts, and some of them turn their hosts into functionally different a...

This is the third post in a series of blog posts written by students from my third year Evolutionary Parasitology unit (ZOOL329/529) class o...

Extreme weather events can cause significant changes to ecosystems and their inhabitants. When Hurricane Iris  made landfall at Belize , it ...

There are many species of fungi that infect insects and some of the most well-known species are the ones that infect ants, better known to m...

Have you ever been so intoxicated that you start walking erratically, stumble away from your friends, stagger around in circles, clamber o...

Life isn't easy as a parasite with a complex life-cycle. In order to grow up and reproduce, you often need to make your way through the ...

It seems that ants just can't get a break when it comes to parasites. When they are not being persuaded to clamp themsleves to the top o...

Dicrocoelium dendriticum , better known as the lancet fluke, is a species of fluke that lives in the liver of grazing mammals such as sheep....

Over on Dechronization , a blog I used to be involved with, Liam Revell posted a very cool video of an ant war going on in his yard. Alex ...

Yesterday, the parasite was saving coffee berries, today the parasite is making ants look like berries. Myrmeconema neotropicum is anothe...