Parasite of the Day

Recently I attended the joint annual meeting for the New Zealand Society of Parasitology (NZSP) and Australian Society for Parasitology (ASP...

Lysibia nana  photo  by Nina Fatouros Used with permission from BugsinthePicture   In order to live, a parasite must find its host. Whe...

Today we feature a guest post by Katie O'Dwyer  who recently completed her PhD at the Evolutionary and Ecological Parasitology group at...

Photo by Haseeb Randhawa & Ken Miller here New Zealand is a land known for its unique animals and plants, but over the centuries it ...

Many parasite can cause health problems for their hosts, but aside from those that infect humans and domestic animals, it is not entirely cl...

Life as a pea crab seems pretty sweet, you spend most of your time sitting snug and protected within the armoured shelter of a shellfish, wh...

When two different parasites find themselves in a small host animal like a mosquito, there is only so much of the host to go around. So ther...

During summer the air is filled with the rattling ruckus of cicada songs. Male cicadas produce this summer choir using a pair of noise-makin...

During this blog's first year back in 2010, we featured a parasitic nematode (roundworm) that lives in the placenta of sperm whales of a...

It's a bug-eat-bug world out there and the same applies to parasitic wasps - even parasites can themselves become parasitised - which i...