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  1. Two things I try to avoid are jellyfish🪼 parasite 🪱. Naturally, jellyfish have their own parasites (for maximum creepiness). But the thing is, those parasites don't stay in the jellyfish; they are just a step in their life cycle. 🧪🌊

    Link: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2

    #Ocean #Jellyfish #Parasites

  2. Two things I try to avoid are jellyfish🪼 parasite 🪱. Naturally, jellyfish have their own parasites (for maximum creepiness). But the thing is, those parasites don't stay in the jellyfish; they are just a step in their life cycle. 🧪🌊

    Link: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2

    #Ocean #Jellyfish #Parasites

  3. #Leishmania: @dfg.de is providing 2.2 million euros for Tom Beneke’s Emmy Noether Junior Research Group @uni-wuerzburg.de. Beneke is investigating how Leishmania #parasites, transmitted by sand flies, spread throughout the body.
    nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026

  4. La literatura ha informado de, al menos, una decena de casos de garrapatas (Ixodes) en ojos humanos. No es común, pero no imposible. 📷Kun Hsi Chu et al., 2025 #salud #health #parasitos #parasites

  5. La literatura ha informado de, al menos, una decena de casos de garrapatas (Ixodes) en ojos humanos. No es común, pero no imposible. 📷Kun Hsi Chu et al., 2025 #salud #health #parasitos #parasites

  6. Thousands of cyclosporiasis cases across 34+ US states this summer — and just when the CDC traced it to lettuce, the lead turned out to be a false positive. 🥬🔬

    The real source? Still unknown.

    #publichealth #outbreak #parasites #foodsafety

    scentsofscience.com/2026/07/29

  7. Thousands of cyclosporiasis cases across 34+ US states this summer — and just when the CDC traced it to lettuce, the lead turned out to be a false positive. 🥬🔬

    The real source? Still unknown.

    #publichealth #outbreak #parasites #foodsafety

    scentsofscience.com/2026/07/29

  8. Behold the jackal food. Rather than using photosynthesis to make food, this parasite siphons nutrients from host plants. The corpse-like stench of its fruit attracts jackals & other carnivores... but how does it taste? Its texture & flavor have been compared to that of a potato!
    @AMNH #globalmuseum #parasites

  9. Behold the jackal food. Rather than using photosynthesis to make food, this parasite siphons nutrients from host plants. The corpse-like stench of its fruit attracts jackals & other carnivores... but how does it taste? Its texture & flavor have been compared to that of a potato!
    @AMNH #globalmuseum #parasites

  10. Cases of illness caused by the parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis continue to rise across the US, but health officials still haven’t identified the contaminated food behind the outbreak. Food safety… #food #foodsafety #parasites

    seriouseats.com/cyclospora-out

    Posted into THE RECIPE EXCHANGE 3.0 @the-recipe-exchange-3-0-Econopass

  11. Cases of illness caused by the parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis continue to rise across the US, but health officials still haven’t identified the contaminated food behind the outbreak. Food safety… #food #foodsafety #parasites

    seriouseats.com/cyclospora-out

    Posted into FLIPBOARD EXCHANGE FEED 🗞️ @flipboard-exchange-feed-Econopass

  12. When organisms colonize new environments, they can experience release from previous parasites. Bolnick et al. use an experiment to track how this release leads to large fluctuations in infection rates, as well as immune evolution.

    Read now ahead of print!
    journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1

    #Immunity #Parasites #EEB

  13. When organisms colonize new environments, they can experience release from previous parasites. Bolnick et al. use an experiment to track how this release leads to large fluctuations in infection rates, as well as immune evolution.

    Read now ahead of print!
    journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1

    #Immunity #Parasites #EEB

  14. Shitty times: "Cyclosporiasis is an illness caused by a parasitic single-celled life-form called Cyclospora cayetanensis, which can spread through food or water. The illness isn’t typically life-threatening, but a cyclospora infection can lead to severe diarrhea and “sometimes explosive bowel movements,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
    #disease #pathology #publichealth #parasites #food #epidemology
    scientificamerican.com/article

  15. Shitty times: "Cyclosporiasis is an illness caused by a parasitic single-celled life-form called Cyclospora cayetanensis, which can spread through food or water. The illness isn’t typically life-threatening, but a cyclospora infection can lead to severe diarrhea and “sometimes explosive bowel movements,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
    #disease #pathology #publichealth #parasites #food #epidemology
    scientificamerican.com/article

  16. El tremátodo Fasciolopsis buski es un enorme parásito intestinal cuyo tamaño oscila de 2 a 7,5 cm de longitud. 📷División de Salud Pública de Georgia #parasitos #parasites

  17. El tremátodo Fasciolopsis buski es un enorme parásito intestinal cuyo tamaño oscila de 2 a 7,5 cm de longitud. 📷División de Salud Pública de Georgia #parasitos #parasites

  18. Los nidos de bruja son crecimientos tumorales del parásito obligado Candidatus Phytoplasma pini en los pinos carrascos (Pinus halepensis), que genera una ramificación densa y focalizada, produciendo incluso piñas de los que pueden crecer pequeños pinos. 📷Joshua Doby #parasitos #parasites

  19. Los nidos de bruja son crecimientos tumorales del parásito obligado Candidatus Phytoplasma pini en los pinos carrascos (Pinus halepensis), que genera una ramificación densa y focalizada, produciendo incluso piñas de los que pueden crecer pequeños pinos. 📷Joshua Doby #parasitos #parasites

  20. #DailyMitePic: These aphids on a dill plant are being parasitized by larval parasitengone mites *and* also being hunted by an adult _Allothrombium_ sumo mite, elegantly illustrating the typical Parasitengona lifestyle.

    It's possible the little ones are larval _Allothrombium_. I may collect some and see if I can rear them to adulthood so they can be identified.

    #bugstodon #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Acariformes #Parasitengona #Trombidiidae #insects #aphids #Hemiptera #Aphididae #parasites #parasitism #ArthroBeauty

  21. Last fall I stuffed several hundred eastern redbud seeds into pharmaceutical gel caps, then waited for parasitic wasps to emerge so that I could take photographs. #blog #wasps #insects #parasites #nature #redbud #beetles #hymenoptera #macro #macrophotography #entomology colinpurrington.com/2026/06/wa