Parasite of the Day

Our parasite for today is a nematode called Pneunonema tiliquae and it is the only species within its genus. It is found in the lungs of the...

The scanning electron microscope has allowed us to see the awesome symmetry of some nematodes up close and personal. Equinurbia blake i is ...

Halipegus eccentricus is a trematode parasite of North American frogs such as the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana . Like many of the other trem...

Imagine someone waiting until just after you've swallowed your last bite of Aunt Tillie's famous pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving, and ...

Today's parasite - Genarchella astyanactis - belongs to family of digenean trematodes called the Derogenidae, which have evolved a uniq...

Happy Thanksgiving to all the U.S. readers out there! Seemed appropriate to feature another turkey parasite today (we've had two others...

Lemurpediculus verruculosus is a species of louse that infects Microcebus rufus , commonly known as the Eastern Rufous Lemur or the Brown M...

Today's parasite is an acanthocephalan (thorny-headed worm) which lives in the Blackback Wrasse ( Anampses neoguinaicus ), a species of ...

There's certainly no doubt that dinosaurs had parasites. The problem is, soft-bodied things like tapeworms and nematodes, let alone sma...

Although most digenetic trematodes (except for schistosomes) are hermaphroditic and thus, by definition, capable of self-fertilization, ther...