#ectoparasites — Public Fediverse posts
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#Beach gooseneck #barnacles find.
There's 3 different types of barnacles found in BC waters/on beaches - acorn, gooseneck & whale - the latter grows on whales' bodies. Barnacles are a longtime, year-round staple #seafood for coastal #Indigenous #FirstNations. In particular, the #Haida & #Kwakwakawakw & #Pacheedaht #FirstPeoples have several documented stories involving barnacles, including food prep recorded histories.Barnacles are #ancient and can be dated to the middle of Cambrian period of Paleozoic because of Burgess Shale deposits in #BritishColumbia. They're #hermaphroditic #MarineAnimals.
#beachcombing #ectoparasites #MarineBiology #epibiotic #LookAndLearn #TraditionalFood #CoastSalish #shellfish #PortRenfrew #Kwakwakawakw #Haida #IndigenousFoods #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #WestCoast #Canada #photography #WorldInMyEyes #Educational #CoastalBC #marine
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#Beach gooseneck #barnacles find.
There's 3 different types of barnacles found in BC waters/on beaches - acorn, gooseneck & whale - the latter grows on whales' bodies. Barnacles are a longtime, year-round staple #seafood for coastal #Indigenous #FirstNations. In particular, the #Haida & #Kwakwakawakw & #Pacheedaht #FirstPeoples have several documented stories involving barnacles, including food prep recorded histories.Barnacles are #ancient and can be dated to the middle of Cambrian period of Paleozoic because of Burgess Shale deposits in #BritishColumbia. They're #hermaphroditic #MarineAnimals.
#beachcombing #ectoparasites #MarineBiology #epibiotic #LookAndLearn #TraditionalFood #CoastSalish #shellfish #PortRenfrew #Kwakwakawakw #Haida #IndigenousFoods #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #WestCoast #Canada #photography #WorldInMyEyes #Educational #CoastalBC #marine
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#Beach gooseneck #barnacles find.
There's 3 different types of barnacles found in BC waters/on beaches - acorn, gooseneck & whale - the latter grows on whales' bodies. Barnacles are a longtime, year-round staple #seafood for coastal #Indigenous #FirstNations. In particular, the #Haida & #Kwakwakawakw & #Pacheedaht #FirstPeoples have several documented stories involving barnacles, including food prep recorded histories.Barnacles are #ancient and can be dated to the middle of Cambrian period of Paleozoic because of Burgess Shale deposits in #BritishColumbia. They're #hermaphroditic #MarineAnimals.
#beachcombing #ectoparasites #MarineBiology #epibiotic #LookAndLearn #TraditionalFood #CoastSalish #shellfish #PortRenfrew #Kwakwakawakw #Haida #IndigenousFoods #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #WestCoast #Canada #photography #WorldInMyEyes #Educational #CoastalBC #marine
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#Beach gooseneck #barnacles find.
There's 3 different types of barnacles found in BC waters/on beaches - acorn, gooseneck & whale - the latter grows on whales' bodies. Barnacles are a longtime, year-round staple #seafood for coastal #Indigenous #FirstNations. In particular, the #Haida & #Kwakwakawakw & #Pacheedaht #FirstPeoples have several documented stories involving barnacles, including food prep recorded histories.Barnacles are #ancient and can be dated to the middle of Cambrian period of Paleozoic because of Burgess Shale deposits in #BritishColumbia. They're #hermaphroditic #MarineAnimals.
#beachcombing #ectoparasites #MarineBiology #epibiotic #LookAndLearn #TraditionalFood #CoastSalish #shellfish #PortRenfrew #Kwakwakawakw #Haida #IndigenousFoods #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #WestCoast #Canada #photography #WorldInMyEyes #Educational #CoastalBC #marine
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#Beach gooseneck #barnacles find.
There's 3 different types of barnacles found in BC waters/on beaches - acorn, gooseneck & whale - the latter grows on whales' bodies. Barnacles are a longtime, year-round staple #seafood for coastal #Indigenous #FirstNations. In particular, the #Haida & #Kwakwakawakw & #Pacheedaht #FirstPeoples have several documented stories involving barnacles, including food prep recorded histories.Barnacles are #ancient and can be dated to the middle of Cambrian period of Paleozoic because of Burgess Shale deposits in #BritishColumbia. They're #hermaphroditic #MarineAnimals.
#beachcombing #ectoparasites #MarineBiology #epibiotic #LookAndLearn #TraditionalFood #CoastSalish #shellfish #PortRenfrew #Kwakwakawakw #Haida #IndigenousFoods #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #WestCoast #Canada #photography #WorldInMyEyes #Educational #CoastalBC #marine
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The #European #hedgehog, #Erinaceus #europaeus is native to parts of southern/ central #Europe, Scandinavia, and northern Russia. It lives solitarily in overlapping #territories and protects itself from #predators by #curlingup, which requires complex muscular coordination.
K. Schütte et al. (2024) identified #ectoparasites of 498 specimens. #Ixodes #ricinus and I. #canisuga were the most abundant #ticks.© #StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-06081-9#Photos
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The #European #hedgehog, #Erinaceus #europaeus is native to parts of southern/ central #Europe, Scandinavia, and northern Russia. It lives solitarily in overlapping #territories and protects itself from #predators by #curlingup, which requires complex muscular coordination.
K. Schütte et al. (2024) identified #ectoparasites of 498 specimens. #Ixodes #ricinus and I. #canisuga were the most abundant #ticks.© #StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-06081-9#Photos
© S.F. Wirth -
The #European #hedgehog, #Erinaceus #europaeus is native to parts of southern/ central #Europe, Scandinavia, and northern Russia. It lives solitarily in overlapping #territories and protects itself from #predators by #curlingup, which requires complex muscular coordination.
K. Schütte et al. (2024) identified #ectoparasites of 498 specimens. #Ixodes #ricinus and I. #canisuga were the most abundant #ticks.© #StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-06081-9#Photos
© S.F. Wirth -
The #European #hedgehog, #Erinaceus #europaeus is native to parts of southern/ central #Europe, Scandinavia, and northern Russia. It lives solitarily in overlapping #territories and protects itself from #predators by #curlingup, which requires complex muscular coordination.
K. Schütte et al. (2024) identified #ectoparasites of 498 specimens. #Ixodes #ricinus and I. #canisuga were the most abundant #ticks.© #StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025
Ref
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-06081-9#Photos
© S.F. Wirth -
The #European #hedgehog, #Erinaceus #europaeus is native to parts of southern/ central #Europe, Scandinavia, and northern Russia. It lives solitarily in overlapping #territories and protects itself from #predators by #curlingup, which requires complex muscular coordination.
K. Schütte et al. (2024) identified #ectoparasites of 498 specimens. #Ixodes #ricinus and I. #canisuga were the most abundant #ticks.© #StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025
Ref
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-06081-9#Photos
© S.F. Wirth -
Underwater buffet: Who wants the ectoparasites? https://oceanbites.org/underwater-buffet-who-wants-the-ectoparasites/
Functional diversity among #CoralReef #fishes as consumers of #ectoparasites https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00338-023-02459-4
"Cleaner fishes are crucial to maintaining #fish community health by eating parasites off host fishes. Cleaners are especially important since #parasitism is super common in coral reefs, affecting the #ecosystem on both individual and community levels."
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“Human #follicular #mites: #ectoparasites becoming #symbionts” (Smith et al. 2022)
Do you think about the mites that live in your #face #follicles and come out at #night while you #sleep? Maybe you should!
🧬 They’ve #evolved a tiny #genome.
💪🏻 Each leg segment is powered by only one #muscle cell.
😴 They follow your sleep cycles by responding to your #melatonin.
🧫 Lowest number of cells of any #arthropod.
If you find this intriguingly #weird, this paper is for you! 🤯
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“Human #follicular #mites: #ectoparasites becoming #symbionts” (Smith et al. 2022)
Do you think about the mites that live in your #face #follicles and come out at #night while you #sleep? Maybe you should!
🧬 They’ve #evolved a tiny #genome.
💪🏻 Each leg segment is powered by only one #muscle cell.
😴 They follow your sleep cycles by responding to your #melatonin.
🧫 Lowest number of cells of any #arthropod.
If you find this intriguingly #weird, this paper is for you! 🤯
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“Human #follicular #mites: #ectoparasites becoming #symbionts” (Smith et al. 2022)
Do you think about the mites that live in your #face #follicles and come out at #night while you #sleep? Maybe you should!
🧬 They’ve #evolved a tiny #genome.
💪🏻 Each leg segment is powered by only one #muscle cell.
😴 They follow your sleep cycles by responding to your #melatonin.
🧫 Lowest number of cells of any #arthropod.
If you find this intriguingly #weird, this paper is for you! 🤯
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“Human #follicular #mites: #ectoparasites becoming #symbionts” (Smith et al. 2022)
Do you think about the mites that live in your #face #follicles and come out at #night while you #sleep? Maybe you should!
🧬 They’ve #evolved a tiny #genome.
💪🏻 Each leg segment is powered by only one #muscle cell.
😴 They follow your sleep cycles by responding to your #melatonin.
🧫 Lowest number of cells of any #arthropod.
If you find this intriguingly #weird, this paper is for you! 🤯
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“Human #follicular #mites: #ectoparasites becoming #symbionts” (Smith et al. 2022)
Do you think about the mites that live in your #face #follicles and come out at #night while you #sleep? Maybe you should!
🧬 They’ve #evolved a tiny #genome.
💪🏻 Each leg segment is powered by only one #muscle cell.
😴 They follow your sleep cycles by responding to your #melatonin.
🧫 Lowest number of cells of any #arthropod.
If you find this intriguingly #weird, this paper is for you! 🤯