July 28, 2015

Special Report: #NZASP15 Part II: Ups and downs of shark parasites, networks, and Toxoplasma gondii

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This is Part 2 of my report on the joint annual meeting for the New Zealand Society of Parasitology (NZSP) and Australian Society for Parasi...
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July 17, 2015

Special Report: #NZASP15 Part I: From seashells on the seashore to giant squid of the deep

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Recently I attended the joint annual meeting for the New Zealand Society of Parasitology (NZSP) and Australian Society for Parasitology (ASP...
June 26, 2015

Lysibia nana

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Lysibia nana  photo  by Nina Fatouros Used with permission from BugsinthePicture   In order to live, a parasite must find its host. Whe...
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June 12, 2015

Coccipolipus hippodamiae

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Today we feature a guest post by Katie O'Dwyer  who recently completed her PhD at the Evolutionary and Ecological Parasitology group at...
May 29, 2015

Mermis nigrescens

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Photo by Haseeb Randhawa & Ken Miller here New Zealand is a land known for its unique animals and plants, but over the centuries it ...
May 15, 2015

Taenia serialis

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Many parasite can cause health problems for their hosts, but aside from those that infect humans and domestic animals, it is not entirely cl...
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April 26, 2015

Nepinnotheres novaezelandiae

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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...
April 10, 2015

Edhazardia aedis

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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...
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March 26, 2015

Emblemasoma erro

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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...
March 11, 2015

Crassicauda magna

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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...