Parasite of the Day

The forests around Ithaca, New York is the scene of an arthropod murder mystery. The killer seems to cover their track well and leave no obv...

Some of you might have heard of the infamous parasitic barnacle Sacculina carcini which infects crabs and take over their bodies. These barn...

Snails are host to a wide range of parasites, especially parasitic flukes  that turn snails into clone factories to pump out streams of para...

Millipedes are known for secreting some really noxious chemicals to ward off its enemies. So much so that other animals are also known to co...

Tapeworms are a very diverse group of parasitic worms. There are about 6000 described species and they infect a wide range of different vert...

Mind-controlling fungi that manipulate ants have become quite well-know among the general public due to their ability to induce a "zomb...

Earlier this year, I wrote a post about Heterorhabditis bacteriophora ; an insect-killing nematodes that uses bacterial symbionts to kill it...

Parasitic plants are important parts of many ecosystems due to the wide range of organisms they interact with. While they can be detrimental...

Bat flies are ectoparasites that cling to bats and suck their blood. As their name indicates, they are actually flies, but their bodies ha...

Sea turtles have a lot of different parasites infecting them - in a previous post I wrote about a recently published study on a parasitic c...