Parasite of the Day

Today's parasite and host are found among the dunes on the coast of Waldport, Oregon. In this story, the host is a little bug - and by b...

The star of today's post is a fish tapeworm call Ligula intestinalis , and today's post is about a recently published paper that res...

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

The word parasite has a lot of connotations associated with it, and "maternal" is certainly not one of them. To most people, the t...

When I saw the reports of giant amphipods being dragged up from the Kermadec Trench off the coast of New Zealand, my immediate thought was ...

Parasitic infections can severely debilitate the host in many ways, sometimes this manifests itself as the loss of some, or even all, of the...

Today, we look at a paper showing how data from DNA sequences can help resolve the evolutionary relationship of different parasite species, ...

Many of you have heard of the very scary phenomenon called "Colony Collapse Disorder" - and if you haven't, you should, becaus...

Through out 2011, we have been featuring more weird and wonderful parasites as we have done in 2010, but on top of that we have also been fe...

Today's parasite, Hematodinium sp., infects blue crabs and causes a disease known as "bitter crab". While the name may sound ...