Parasite of the Day

Life as a pea crab seems pretty sweet, you spend most of your time sitting snug and protected within the armoured shelter of a shellfish, wh...

When two different parasites find themselves in a small host animal like a mosquito, there is only so much of the host to go around. So ther...

During summer the air is filled with the rattling ruckus of cicada songs. Male cicadas produce this summer choir using a pair of noise-makin...

During this blog's first year back in 2010, we featured a parasitic nematode (roundworm) that lives in the placenta of sperm whales of a...

It's a bug-eat-bug world out there and the same applies to parasitic wasps - even parasites can themselves become parasitised - which i...

What does the cause of pigeon canker, today's parasite, and the most common curable sexually transmitted infection in the world have in ...

Larva of Baylisascaris procyonis , another parasitic nematode in the same genus as   Baylisascaris schroederi.  Photo from here To say...

Photo of Pennella balaenopterae embedded on the side of the porpoise's peduncle (from Fig 2 of the paper ) Most people usually thin...

We've come to the end of yet another year and all that it entails in the field of parasitology. As with last year, we have continued to ...

Today's blog post features a study in which an infestation at an aquarium allowed a group of scientists to work out the life cycle of a ...