Parasite of the Day

The Atractidae is a family of nematodes (roundworms) that are found in the intestines or lungs of various vertebrate animals. Instead of pro...

The study we are featuring today is one of the more difficult, yet under-appreciated type of studies in ecological parasitology; working out...

Philometroides paralichthydis is a filarial nematode that parasitises the southern flounder . The fish becomes infected by eating copepods ...

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

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...