Parasite of the Day

It has been yet another year of parasitology, and this year has been my fifth year writing on a regular basis for Parasite of the Day! So wh...

There are many examples of parasites altering the behaviour of their hosts, and some of them turn their hosts into functionally different a...

Today, we are featuring a parasite that lives on the ocean sunfish ( Mola mola ) which happens to be the heaviest known living bony fish in ...

Vampires have undergone a lot of image change over the centuries and they are a common part of many culture's mythology. But vampires ar...

The fate of parasites are often inextricably linked to that of their hosts, and when there are changes in the host population, the effects c...

Leeches are not endearing animals and many are literal blood-suckers. As a result they often evoke a sense of disgust in most people, and th...

Half of all known segmented worms are oligochaetes ,   and the most well-known example is an earthworm . But aside from the earthworms that ...

For most insects (and other small animals), the praying mantis is a creature out of their worst nightmare; a deadly predator with giant comp...

This is the seventh and final posts in a series of posts written by students from my third year Evolutionary Parasitology unit (ZOOL329/529)...

This is the sixth post in a series of blog posts written by students from my third year Evolutionary Parasitology unit (ZOOL329/529) class o...