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#parasites — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #parasites, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Organismes vermiformes d'une embranchement nommé #Nematomorpha, ils fréquentent les #eauxDouces cosmopolites (les points d'eau des grottes, les flaques, les étangs, les lacs, les cours d'eau de toutes tailles, mais aussi domestiques comme les piscines, les cuvettes de toilettes, les abreuvoirs pour bovins et les gamelles d'animaux de compagnie 🤪 ).
    Pour en savoir plus, consultez la nouvelle fiche sur les vers gordiens !

    COVES Jacques, COROLLA Jean-Pierre in : #DORIS 04/09/2026 :
    Gordiida (Ordre) Schmarda, 1871, doris.ffessm.fr/ref/specie/3349

    #Biodiversity #ffessm #Gordioida #Gordiida #biodiversite #vers #parasites

  2. Capitalism’s defenders like to boast that it rewards talent. What capitalism actually rewards is saleability, compliance, stamina, inheritance, and the ability to endure long periods of spiritual self-betrayal without becoming visibly troublesome.

    philosophics.blog/2026/03/08/c

    #philosophy #capitalism #labour #art #employment #artists #culture #Kafka #modernity, #exploitation #creativity #patronage #work #society #politics #enlightenment #civilisation #potential #opportunitycosts #parasites #blog

  3. Insomnia

    Being an uber geek I still sometimes wake up in the middle of the night wondering about major issues like “Do earthworms have parasites?”

    #AucklandComedy #Comedy #EarthWorms #Geek #NZComedy #Parasites
  4. Being an uber geek I still sometimes wake up in the middle of the night wondering about major issues like “Do #earthworms have #parasites?”

  5. le retard de prise en charge médicale à cause du bullshit New age, c'est ce qui fait que ce mois ci mon père a un œil aveugle sans aucune chance de guérison alors que ça aurait pu être évité à son âge.

    inpectez vos vieux qui sont empêtré dans du #bullshit de pseudo science, mais n'espérez pas faire de miracle.

    #bullshit

    un moyen ou deux de se prémunir de ça ce serait de lire ou écouter ce que publie l'#AFIS et #metadechoc, ou #conspiracywatch, mais des fois on ne peut juste rien faire.

    #science #pseudoscience #médecine #chamanisme #parasites #sectes #dérivesSectaires #miviludes

  6. We also confirmed the observation made by the Wheelers back in the '60s that Manica parasitica is really "shaky". Maybe this is an "adaptive manipulation" by the parasite?

    #Manica #ants #insects #parasites #sierranevada

  7. 1/2 We (re)rediscovered Manica parasitica in the Sierra Nevada. Originally, this ant species was thought to be a free-loading parasite that uses the nests and brood care of its host Manica bradleyi for its own survival.

    Instead, "Manica parasitica" is tapeworm-infested Manica bradleyi.

    royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

    #Manica #ants #insects #parasites #sierranevada

  8. Ant biologists thought the small, strangely-shaped Manica parasitica from the Sierra Nevada was a social parasite of another ant species, but the truth is even stranger.

    #Ants #Insects #Manica #Parasites

    royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

  9. The prospect of a better treatment for Chagas disease and sleeping sickness blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbit

    #Cyanotriazoles are selective topoisomerase II poisons that rapidly cure trypanosome infections science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    "#NeglectedTropicalDiseases caused by #SingleCelled #parasites (#trypanosomatids) include #ChagasDisease, #SleepingSickness & #leishmaniasis. Progress in treatment of these #diseases had been slow, though large chemical library screens are now showing promising results."

  10. World's heaviest flying #bird may be self-medicating on plants used in traditional medicine
    phys.org/news/2022-11-world-he

    Bioactivity of #plants eaten by wild #birds against laboratory models of #parasites and #pathogens frontiersin.org/articles/10.33

    #GreatBustards seek out two species of weeds that are also used by humans in #TraditionalMedicine. Both contain antiprotozoal and nematicidal (ie, worm-killing) compounds, while the second also contains antifungal agents.

  11. Mystery #parasites on #ZombieAntFungus identified by scientists edition.cnn.com/2022/11/18/wor Paper: ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn #fungi #ants #invertebrates #parasitism #insect #insects

    “Every time we see these new genera we described growing on the #fungus, the fungus looks pretty beaten up, really consumed... In some cases, it castrates #Ophiocordyceps first, so it cannot shoot the #spores anymore, and then it grows and then consumes the whole fungus.”