Parasite of the Day

Galactosomum nagasakiense is a parasite that lives rent-free in fish's brain and give them " Trematode Whirling Disease " (TW...

Parasites are known for their complex life cycles, especially among parasitic flatworms such as flukes. And the flukes that are being featur...

In Lake Alexandrina of New Zealand lives a species of tiny freshwater snail called Potamopyrgus antipodarum . These snails are capable of a...

Leucochloridium paradoxum is one of those parasites which is immediately recognisable on sight. Commonly known as the "zombie snail par...

Shellfish such as oysters, mussels, and whelks are popular fares among seafood lovers, but we are not the only ones with a taste for those m...

Lake Kariba is the largest artificial lake in the world - Initially created in the late-1950s and early-1960s, it has since become inhabite...

Mantis shrimps ( Stomatopoda ) are some of the most formidable crustaceans in the sea; armed with trinocular colour vision , and a pair of p...

A few months ago, I wrote about a snail that forms galls in the spines of sea urchins , and while most people might not think of snails as p...

Snails are host to a wide range of parasites, especially parasitic flukes  that turn snails into clone factories to pump out streams of para...

Sea turtles have a lot of different parasites infecting them - in a previous post I wrote about a recently published study on a parasitic c...

Parasites manipulating their hosts' appearance and behaviour is one aspect of parasitology which seems to have captured the public's...

Human activities are having very significant impacts on the ecosystems of this planet and it is affecting every organisms. Parasites are not...

Vampires have undergone a lot of image change over the centuries and they are a common part of many culture's mythology. But vampires ar...

There are many parasites that castrate their hosts - the parasitic barnacle that feed on the velvet belly lantern shark, the nightmarish Sa...