Parasite of the Day

At the top of this blog, there is a quote by Jonathan Swift about how fleas have smaller fleas that bite them. Indeed, parasites becoming ho...

Images from the paper  While "many sucker-cups at the rear" sounds like the description for a Lovecraftian monstrosity, that i...

As you can probably tell from the name, asphalt lakes  are not nice places to live. Also known as tar pits, they are natural deposits of bit...

The hippopotamus is notorious for being one of (if not the most) dangerous large animals of Africa, as they are extremely aggressive and unp...

Guitarfish are really rays, not sharks, but they're closely related and some species are also called sand sharks, so thought this one c...

Ever wondered what attracted your mom to dear ol' dad? Well, if you mom was a guppy ( Poecilia reticulata ), it might very well have bee...

We normally think of parasites as rather despicable creatures - out for food and shelter and not caring who suffers in their quest. But tod...

Here’s Neobenedenia melleni , a pesky monogenean parasite on the skin and gills of tropical and subtropical fishes. It probably hails from ...