Parasite of the Day

Earlier this year, I wrote about Aggregata sinensis   a species of single-celled apicomplexan parasite that infects octopus. But octopuses a...

Over the course of human history, numerous species of plants, animals, and other organisms have been taken from their original habitats and ...

At the top of this blog, there is a quote by Jonathan Swift about how fleas have smaller fleas that bite them. Indeed, parasites becoming ho...

Australia has some of the most venomous snakes in the world, but the mouths of those reptiles are filled with more than just venomous fangs....

Parasitic copepods are a weird bunch , and many of them   look nothing like what most people would recognise as a crustacean . But even am...

Quite a few years ago I wrote a blog post about a study on some bird lice that hitch-hike on louse flies as a way of reaching new hosts - t...

Apicomplexa  is a diverse phylum of single-celled parasites. They are found in a wide range of different animals, and includes some well-kno...

Gnathiidae is a family of parasitic isopods that can be considered as ticks of the sea. I make that comparison not only because gnathiids a...

The ecological roles played by parasites can often get overlooked because they are largely hidden from sight, but their presence can have a ...

Shellfish such as oysters, mussels, and whelks are popular fares among seafood lovers, but we are not the only ones with a taste for those m...