Parasite of the Day

Parasitic crustaceans can evolve into some pretty funky forms and they have been featured multiple times on this blog. These crustacean...

Rickia wasmannii is a fungus that lives on ants, and when it comes to ants and fungi most people usually think of Ophiocordyceps , i.e. the...

A few years ago, rainbow trout at a trout farm in the Shiga prefecture, Japan, were being struck down by a mysterious illness. The flesh of ...

Pearls may look beautiful to us, but for some parasites, they represent a slow and claustrophobic death. Pearls are secreted by the soft and...

Leucochloridium paradoxum is one of those parasites which is immediately recognisable on sight. Commonly known as the "zombie snail par...

Whales are big animals, even the "smaller" cetaceans such as dolphins and pilot whales are large animals in the range of body size...

In the cold rivers and lakes of the arctic and subarctic region, there live some rather peculiar worms with a face full of tiny hooks and an...

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...