Parasite of the Day

Mosquitoes are mostly known for being blood-suckers. But despite that reputation, they actually spend most of their adult life  feeding on n...

Today, we are featuring a guest post from Marie Defraigne - she is an MSc student on the  IMBRSea  programme, and is currently working (albe...

Today, we are featuring a guest post by Juliette Villechanoux - an MSc student on the  IMBRSea   programme currently carrying out her profes...

In this post, we're going to focus on a paper about a peculiar group of parasites - the Pentastomida , also known as tongue worms. Despi...

Pea crabs ( Pinnotheridae ) are tiny crabs that have evolved to live with or within larger aquatic invertebrates. Some species take up resid...

Aquaculture is currently one of the world's fastest growing food-production industry, with about half of all the fish being eaten aroun...

When it comes to conservation and protecting threatened species, fleas would not usually be high on most people's list. Not only because...

We've reached the end of yet another year and as usual there have been many interesting parasitology papers published this year, but wit...

Fish blood flukes are common parasites in the aquatic environment and many species have been described from all kinds of fish all over the ...

When it comes to parasitology, sometimes you have to get really up close with your study organism, as one researcher in Taiwan did in trying...