Parasite of the Day

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...

Dracunculidae is a family of worms with a nasty reputation. Most of this is due to Dracunculus medinensis , also known as the Guinea Worm w...

Sacculina pilosella is a parasite of spider crabs ( Scyra ferox ), and while it is technically a barnacle, you're going to have to aban...

The bonefish  is a popular recreational species for catch-and-release fishing. It is targeted by anglers using fly rods or light tackle, an...

The deep sea is home to unique communities of organisms, and wherever there is life, there are parasites, and deep sea habitats such as hydr...

Imagine an infectious disease that turns you into an immobile white statue - while that sounds like something out of a dystopian science fic...

Sometimes parasites get their own parasites too, and if you think that "enemy of my enemy is my friend", then you'd think this...

Tongue-biters are among the most (in)famous parasites found in fish, but they aren't the only type of isopods that parasitise fish, nor ...

On this blog, we like to revel in the obscure and bizarre, and it doesn't get much more obscure and bizarre than dicyemids  - a group of...