Parasite of the Day

To land-dwelling humans, deep sea hydrothermal vents would seem like a vision of hell, amidst the crushing darkness you have plumes of supe...

Prosthogonimus is a genus of flukes that live in a special part of a bird's anatomy. It is usually found either in the Bursa of Fabrici...

This parasite is invisible to the naked eye, can kill its host in 3 days, and it can be found lurking in the waters of rice fields. What I h...

Strepisptera is an order of parasitic insects with some very unique characteristics.They are also known as twisted wing parasites, based on...

In Lake Alexandrina of New Zealand lives a species of tiny freshwater snail called Potamopyrgus antipodarum . These snails are capable of a...

Parasitism has evolved a few different times in barnacles. Most parasitic barnacles belong to a group called the rhizocephalans , which are ...

Student guest post time! One of the assessments that I set for students in my ZOOL329 Evolutionary Parasitology class is for them to summari...

The study in this post takes us to one of the darkest corners of the deep sea, over 7000 m below sea level in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, lo...

The horned passalus beetle ( Odontotaenius disjunctus )  is an insect that is commonly found in rotting logs. These beetles do more than jus...

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