Parasite of the Day

Today's parasite is about as Aussie as they come - Trypanosoma irwini - a blood parasite named in honour of the late Steve "Crocod...

The harmfulness of parasites to their host is not always so straightforward, there are often many factors which contribute to the pathology ...

Eustrongylides ignotus is an extremely pathogenic nematode which lives in the wall of the stomach (proventriculus) of herons and egrets and...

The parasite for today is found in a celebrity of sorts, the star of the film Jaws and its sequels - the famous Great White Shark . Unlike i...

Chondracanthus parvus is a parasitic copepod that parasitises the smooth-cheek sculpin, Eurymen hyrinus , by attaching itself to the inner s...

Regular readers of this blog will no doubt be familiar with the wonderfully weird and twisted morphology of parasitic copepods. However, th...

Speaking of co-extinctions, here's a contribution that I just got from Anya Gonchar . Columbicola extinctus is a louse that was specifi...

Today's parasite is a tick described from an endangered marsupial. Ixodes neuquenensis is an ectoparasite of a unique little marsupial ...

Last year the most “yuck” votes were cast for a photo of Philophthalmus gralli in the eyes of a rhea at the Phoenix Zoo. Melanie Church, t...

Today's parasite is a strange worm found in a habitat that may shock and bewilder many readers on multiple levels. It's a worm that ...