Parasite of the Day

There are about 45000 known species of mites  - these tiny arachnids can be found in a wide range of different environments, where they make...

There are variety of mites which live with ants , but many of them are not well-studied. Most of them are either phoretic mites which hitch ...

Today we feature a guest post by Katie O'Dwyer  who recently completed her PhD at the Evolutionary and Ecological Parasitology group at...

Many people who have had a dog or a cat as a pet are probably familiar with ear mites - infections that can cause your pet to have brown, cr...

The animal in the photo is not a parasite - but its offspring are. Like Eutrombicula alfreduggesi , Trombidium holosericeum is a mite that...

Spinturnix americanus is a species of mite that uses several species of vespertillionid bats as its hosts, including little brown bats ( M...

Back in 1984, a 35-year old guy started feeling a pain in his eye and went to his doctor. The doctor looked under his eyelid and saw nothing...

Dermanyssus gallinae , or the red mite, is an ectoparasite of birds. They do not live on birds, but rather hop on them to feed on their blo...

If you’ve ever had chiggers, you know they’re really, really irritating. These are the parasitic larval stages of free-living mites, and Eu...

Earlier, you saw the mite Varroa destructor , that hitches rides on honeybees. Now meet Acarapis woodi , another teeny tiny little mite tha...

One of the things that grosses non-parasitologists out (and probably many parasitologists!) is the fact that little tiny mites live on our e...

In the aftermath of the earthquake, aid workers report that scabies has been running rampant in tent cities in Haiti. Scabies is a contagiou...

Many people have heard of grave concerns about the loss of honey bees, key pollinators of our crops and other important plants. One of the ...