Parasite of the Day

The bile duct of a bird is probably the last place you'd expect to find a microscopic, parasitic relative of jellyfish, but that is exac...

Pea crabs are a type of tiny crabs that live mostly in bivalve shellfish such as mussels, oysters, and scallops. Scientifically known as pin...

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

Do you like eating fish? Well so do some leeches. Most people only know about the leeches that feed on humans, but there are also numerous o...

Horsehair worms are a menace to crickets (as well as mantis , millipedes , and centipedes ) everywhere. Imagine being a cricket going about ...

Floating amidst the ocean's plankton is a tiny monster, it has no mouth and it must mate, after which it will give birth to a new genera...

The electric eel , also known as poraquê , is a formidable animal. Not only is it capable of stunning its prey with an electrifying shock, ...

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 ...

Myxozoans  are a group of single-celled parasites which had evolved from jellyfish-like ancestors, thus making them a type of single-celled ...

Student guest post time! One of the assessments that I set for students in my ZOOL329 Evolutionary Parasitology class is for them to write a...