Parasite of the Day

Over the course of human history, numerous species of plants, animals, and other organisms have been taken from their original habitats and ...

While there is an oft-mentioned quote by evolutionary biologist JBS Haldane that God has an " Inordinate Fondness For Beetles ", i...

Many people are afraid of spiders  and while spiders are generally harmless to people for the most part, their appearance are just too night...

This is the sixth post in a series of blog posts written by students from my third year Evolutionary Parasitology unit (ZOOL329/529) class o...

Those who have been reading this blog for a while realise that August is the month when I featured some guest posts written by students from...

Lysibia nana  photo  by Nina Fatouros Used with permission from BugsinthePicture   In order to live, a parasite must find its host. Whe...

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

This is the sixth post in a series of blog posts written by students from my third year Evolutionary Parasitology unit (ZOOL329/529) class o...

Hornets can put fear into the minds of many people, but today meet the parasite that the hornets fear (if they are capable of fear). Sphaeru...

Drosophila suzukii is a fruit fly like no other. Native to Asia, it is related to that common lab workhorse(fly) Drosophila melanogaster , ...

On this blog, we have covered many stories of either parasite cleverly evading the host's defences or the host valiantly fighting back a...

On this blog, we have featured many parasites that drastically alter the appearance and/or behaviour of their host, usually to make them mo...

Recently there was a widely circulated study about fruit flies consuming alcohol to fight off parasitoid infections. But there are other me...

In the "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" carol, there's a line in there demanding that the host bring out some figgy pudding. Bu...

Megarhyssa macrurus is a species of parasitoid wasp. These insects seek out their hosts - larval horntail wasps - by tapping trees with th...

Camptopteroides verrucosa is a species of fairyfly (family Mymaridae) - which is to say that it's not a fly at all, but rather a tiny l...

Few species exhibit behavior as gruesome and horrifying as the parasitic wasp, Cotesia congregata . As the great naturalist Charles Darwin ...

If you liked the movie Alien, then you might be a fan of parasitic wasps, such as Peristenus digoneutis . These insects, sometimes incredib...