Parasite of the Day

In June 2010 at Folly Beach, South Carolina, the local community was shocked and dismayed by the sight of millions of dead dwarf surf clams ...

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...

Blood flukes from the genus Schistosoma  are found in over 77 countries, infecting at least 230 million people , and  second only to malaria...

Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food production industries in the world; it is already responsible for supplying half of fish con...

If you don't like mosquito bites, then you will like today's parasite as it is a mermithid nematode which infects mosquitoes. We hav...

Nematodes are commonly referred to as "roundworms" as that describes their cross-section if you were to cleave one right across it...

It looks like we've made it through another year of parasites, filled with posts on new research that was published this year on all man...

Today, we are featuring the insect-killing fungus  Metarhizium anisopliae . I have previously written about a related species that speciali...

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

As has been discussed in a number of previous posts,  most parasites don't get the whole host to themselves and often have to compete w...