Parasite of the Day

Regular readers of this blog will no doubt be familiar with the wonderfully weird and twisted morphology of parasitic copepods. However, th...

Speaking of co-extinctions, here's a contribution that I just got from Anya Gonchar . Columbicola extinctus is a louse that was specifi...

Today's parasite is a tick described from an endangered marsupial. Ixodes neuquenensis is an ectoparasite of a unique little marsupial ...

Last year the most “yuck” votes were cast for a photo of Philophthalmus gralli in the eyes of a rhea at the Phoenix Zoo. Melanie Church, t...

Today's parasite is a strange worm found in a habitat that may shock and bewilder many readers on multiple levels. It's a worm that ...

Pygidiopsis macrostomum is a freshwater digenean from Brazil. Like most otherdigenean trematodes, it has a three-host life-cycle. It asexua...

Today's parasite hails from the San José Gulf of Argentina. Opechona sp. is a digenean trematode which uses the intertidal snail Buccin...

Colobomatus sillaginis is a parasitic copepod that lives in the head of two species of fish (commonly known in Australia as "whiting...

It seems that ants just can't get a break when it comes to parasites. When they are not being persuaded to clamp themsleves to the top o...

Many fleas are quite host specific, although rodent and shrew fleas are occasionally also found on their predators, probably hopping on the ...