#parasitism — Public Fediverse posts

Sharia law explained in Texas

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The speaker is reportedly a migrant from Iran at a town meeting on a proposed Islamic Center in McKinney, TX. The West is collapsing at warp speed due to its ignorance of other cultures and religions. All enemy infiltrators will lie to you. ABN

Sharia law explained in Texas

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The speaker is reportedly a migrant from Iran at a town meeting on a proposed Islamic Center in McKinney, TX. The West is collapsing at warp speed due to its ignorance of other cultures and religions. All enemy infiltrators will lie to you. ABN

Carrie Prejean Boller on the fraudulent worship of Israel

Worshipping Israel is a historically recent fraud foisted on unwitting Christians. The Charlie Kirk assassination has thrust this vile fraud to the forefront of many of the Christian sects which have fallen for it. The reasonable suspicion that Israel is somehow behind Kirk’s assassination adds enormous vividity to the exposure of this scriptural fraud and the foul infiltration of Jewish scammers who preceded and encouraged it. Many deluded and false Christians have also been part of the scam. Overall, it is one of the worst religious scams in US history, probably the worst.

For Buddhists, this scam is an example of the danger of worshipping texts, which can be changed. It’s yet another reason the Buddha warned against writing his teachings down. He did not want them to be worshipped, demonically altered or memorized rather than actually learned deeply. Incidentally, this is also a major reason Buddhism is difficult for non-Buddhists to learn. Westerners almost always just place a Christian Venn diagram over Buddhism and presume they are much the same. Not true. Not true at all. The best way to learn Buddhism is to spend time with Buddhists and learn from them. In a word, Buddhism has no absolute beliefs. It is an existential philosophy based on direct personal experience. ABN

Carrie Prejean Boller on the fraudulent worship of Israel

Worshipping Israel is a historically recent fraud foisted on unwitting Christians. The Charlie Kirk assassination has thrust this vile fraud to the forefront of many of the Christian sects which have fallen for it. The reasonable suspicion that Israel is somehow behind Kirk’s assassination adds enormous vividity to the exposure of this scriptural fraud and the foul infiltration of Jewish scammers who preceded and encouraged it. Many deluded and false Christians have also been part of the scam. Overall, it is one of the worst religious scams in US history, probably the worst.

For Buddhists, this scam is an example of the danger of worshipping texts, which can be changed. It’s yet another reason the Buddha warned against writing his teachings down. He did not want them to be worshipped, demonically altered or memorized rather than actually learned deeply. Incidentally, this is also a major reason Buddhism is difficult for non-Buddhists to learn. Westerners almost always just place a Christian Venn diagram over Buddhism and presume they are much the same. Not true. Not true at all. The best way to learn Buddhism is to spend time with Buddhists and learn from them. In a word, Buddhism has no absolute beliefs. It is an existential philosophy based on direct personal experience. ABN

Will I read these books? Yes. Yes I will.
#NaturalHistory #Biology #Symbiosis #Parasitism

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02387-7

Will I read these books? Yes. Yes I will.
#NaturalHistory #Biology #Symbiosis #Parasitism

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02387-7

They tell you Flock cameras are there to fight crime — theleahfiles

So I pulled the actual police logs from my new favorite website (haveibeenflocked . com). 233 million searches that they have been able to get via FOIA requests and here’s what “fighting crime” actually looks like:

84% had no case number at all
The most common reason a cop typed in the box? Blank, nothing
Only about 9% were even tagged as a real crime.
“Test” and “training” show up as reasons, run on real people’s cars
The FBI and Homeland Security were wired into local camera networks your town never signed off on.

So what is Flock?

FLOCK: 100,000+ plate cameras bolted to poles across America. They read your plate everywhere you drive and never forget.

NOVA: Flock’s AI that turns your plate into you. Your name, address, family, everyone you know, in seconds, no warrant.

SIGNALTRACE: a competitor’s tool that tracks the Bluetooth off your phone, your AirPods, your watch. Doesn’t even need your plate.

Then I followed the money and the lead investor behind Flock also funds an Israeli company that can hack cameras and change the footage. Another lead investor backs a 911 app that flips on your phone’s camera and mic. Trace it all the way back and you hit a former Israeli prime minister and Jeffrey Epstein’s money.

Full article with photos and receipts is on my Substack now (link in bio). Enjoy!

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They tell you Flock cameras are there to fight crime — theleahfiles

So I pulled the actual police logs from my new favorite website (haveibeenflocked . com). 233 million searches that they have been able to get via FOIA requests and here’s what “fighting crime” actually looks like:

84% had no case number at all
The most common reason a cop typed in the box? Blank, nothing
Only about 9% were even tagged as a real crime.
“Test” and “training” show up as reasons, run on real people’s cars
The FBI and Homeland Security were wired into local camera networks your town never signed off on.

So what is Flock?

FLOCK: 100,000+ plate cameras bolted to poles across America. They read your plate everywhere you drive and never forget.

NOVA: Flock’s AI that turns your plate into you. Your name, address, family, everyone you know, in seconds, no warrant.

SIGNALTRACE: a competitor’s tool that tracks the Bluetooth off your phone, your AirPods, your watch. Doesn’t even need your plate.

Then I followed the money and the lead investor behind Flock also funds an Israeli company that can hack cameras and change the footage. Another lead investor backs a 911 app that flips on your phone’s camera and mic. Trace it all the way back and you hit a former Israeli prime minister and Jeffrey Epstein’s money.

Full article with photos and receipts is on my Substack now (link in bio). Enjoy!

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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Shapiro’s 9/10 “Lunch” Date. More Text Messages From Charlie Kirk. | Ep 365

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amqTMimDr0A

The Israeli Spy Behind PragerU’s Plan to Rewrite American Education to Indoctrinate Children

PragerU is trying to take over American schools. The right-wing, pseudo-educational group is now an official educational partner in at least ten states, and blitzes children with highly questionable messaging on race, history, and politics. Even more concerning, PragerU is led by former Israeli spy, Marissa Streit, who has stated she uses the tactics and techniques honed by IDF military intelligence on the American people.

Streit’s company is involved in a big-money operation targeting children with neoconservative, pro-war, pro-business, pro-Israel messaging, attempting to indoctrinate them at their youngest and most impressionable age.

Leave Our Kids Alone

You have probably seen a PragerU video. An estimated one-in-three Americans have. The billionaire-funded media machine is a powerful force on the American right, providing highly-produced conservative content attempting to push U.S. politics and society rightwards.

Recently, however, PragerU has set its sights on children, and is seeking to hijack the American education system. Since 2023, it has signed deals with ten states – Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah – to become an official education provider, supplying books, videos, and other content to schools across the United States. Students in New Hampshire, meanwhile, can earn credits by completing online PragerU courses. And with PragerU Español, it has plans to expand into Latin America as well.

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Tapeworm makes #ants live longer: Study identifies molecular changes that reshape aging and behavior in infected workers, leading to a partially queen-like phenotype 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/tapeworm-makes-ants-live-longer/

#insects #temnothorax #parasitism #BehavioralEcology #SocialInsects #ant #biology

Tapeworm makes #ants live longer: Study identifies molecular changes that reshape aging and behavior in infected workers, leading to a partially queen-like phenotype 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/tapeworm-makes-ants-live-longer/

#insects #temnothorax #parasitism #BehavioralEcology #SocialInsects #ant #biology

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Demonstrates parasitic infiltration at all levels of government and society. Once USA’s military marries Israel’s military the takeover will be complete. And USA will be no more. ABN

Parasitoid (Parasitology 🧬)

A parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionary strategies within parasitism, distinguished by the fatal prognosis for the host, which makes the strategy close to predation. Among parasitoids, strategies range from living...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid

#Parasitoid #Parasitism #Parasitology #BiologicalPestControl

Parasitoid (Parasitology 🧬)

A parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionary strategies within parasitism, distinguished by the fatal prognosis for the host, which makes the strategy close to predation. Among parasitoids, strategies range from living...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid

#Parasitoid #Parasitism #Parasitology #BiologicalPestControl

The Supreme Court just gutted the Deep State — Peter St Onge

Voting 6 to 3 to allow Trump to fire the “independent” bureaucrats who run most of the federal government.

This could hand voters everything from banking and elections to — dare we dream — the Federal Reserve.

The Supreme Court just gutted the Deep State — Peter St Onge

Voting 6 to 3 to allow Trump to fire the “independent” bureaucrats who run most of the federal government.

This could hand voters everything from banking and elections to — dare we dream — the Federal Reserve.

‘Deep State operates quietly below surface’: Gabbard warns Americans of major threat in fiery speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uQvsTJ9Svc

#MiteMonday: As I watched this aphid laden with parasitic larval mites, one small light-coloured one climbed off the aphid and ran away over the leaf. The aphid, disturbed by me handling the leaf, began walking away and shed a few more mites. So the mites seem ready to detach as needed at any stage, which is interesting I think.

Also does this count as a parasite on a parasite? :thonking:

#Mitestodon #mites #bugstodon #insects #aphids #parasitism #Acari #Acariformes #Parasitengona #Hemiptera #Aphididae

Farner, J. E., Riley, I. M., Singh, A. H., & Mordecai, E. A. (2026). Heatwaves rescue a mosquito host from parasitism across a large geographic gradient. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.26.734620

#preprint #heatwave #parasitism

#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

Thread documenting Jewish support of mass migration

This is a thread documenting Jewish support for mass migration, and refugee settlement in the West.

Contributions are greatly appreciated.

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The same people who are exterminating the people who allowed them into their country when they claimed to be refugees, have been working for decades to exterminate the West by flooding it with mass migration invasion. Mass migration is an act of war, a prelude to genocide. ABN

Thread documenting Jewish support of mass migration

This is a thread documenting Jewish support for mass migration, and refugee settlement in the West.

Contributions are greatly appreciated.

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The same people who are exterminating the people who allowed them into their country when they claimed to be refugees, have been working for decades to exterminate the West by flooding it with mass migration invasion. Mass migration is an act of war, a prelude to genocide. ABN

From the Journal of Charles Pickney of South Carolina on the Constitutional Convention of 1789: ‘There is a great danger for the United States of America. This great danger is the jew’

Excerpt from the Journal of Charles Pickney of South Carolina, of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of 1789, regarding the statement of Benjamin Franklin, at the Convention, concerning Jewish immigration.

“There is a great danger for the United States of America. This great danger is the jew. Gentlemen, in every land which the jews have settled, they have depressed the moral level and lowered the degree of commercial honesty. They have remained apart and unassimilated. They have created a state within a state, and when they are oppressed they attempt to strangle the nation financially as in the case of Portugal and Spain.

For more than 1700 years, they have lamented their sorrowful fate-namely, that they were driven out of their motherland. But gentlemen, if the civilized world today should give them back Palestine and their property they would immediately find pressing reasons for not returning there. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires cannot live on other vampires, they cannot live among themselves; and they must live among Christians others who do not belong to their race.

If they are not excluded from the United States, by the Constitution, within less than 100 years, they will stream into this country in such numbers they will rule and destroy us and change our form of government for which we Americans shed our blood and sacrificed life, property and personal freedom. If the jews are not excluded within 200 years, our children will be working in the fields to feed the jews while they remain in the counting house gleefully rubbing their hands.

I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude the jews forever, your children and your children’s children will curse you in your graves. Their ideas are not those of Americans even when they have lived among us for ten generations. The leopard cannot change its spots. The jews are a danger to this land and if they are allowed to enter they will imperil our institutions-they should be excluded by the Constitution.”

~Original of this copy in Franklin Institute Philadelphia, Pa.

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From the Journal of Charles Pickney of South Carolina on the Constitutional Convention of 1789: ‘There is a great danger for the United States of America. This great danger is the jew’

Excerpt from the Journal of Charles Pickney of South Carolina, of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of 1789, regarding the statement of Benjamin Franklin, at the Convention, concerning Jewish immigration.

“There is a great danger for the United States of America. This great danger is the jew. Gentlemen, in every land which the jews have settled, they have depressed the moral level and lowered the degree of commercial honesty. They have remained apart and unassimilated. They have created a state within a state, and when they are oppressed they attempt to strangle the nation financially as in the case of Portugal and Spain.

For more than 1700 years, they have lamented their sorrowful fate-namely, that they were driven out of their motherland. But gentlemen, if the civilized world today should give them back Palestine and their property they would immediately find pressing reasons for not returning there. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires cannot live on other vampires, they cannot live among themselves; and they must live among Christians others who do not belong to their race.

If they are not excluded from the United States, by the Constitution, within less than 100 years, they will stream into this country in such numbers they will rule and destroy us and change our form of government for which we Americans shed our blood and sacrificed life, property and personal freedom. If the jews are not excluded within 200 years, our children will be working in the fields to feed the jews while they remain in the counting house gleefully rubbing their hands.

I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude the jews forever, your children and your children’s children will curse you in your graves. Their ideas are not those of Americans even when they have lived among us for ten generations. The leopard cannot change its spots. The jews are a danger to this land and if they are allowed to enter they will imperil our institutions-they should be excluded by the Constitution.”

~Original of this copy in Franklin Institute Philadelphia, Pa.

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(the answer is: isopods and _Wolbachia_)

- Charlat, S., Hurst, G. D. D., & Merçot, H. (2003). Evolutionary consequences of Wolbachia infections. Trends in Genetics, 19(4), 217–223. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0168-9525(03)00024-6 :ClosedAccess: https://sci-hub.box/10.1016/S0168-9525(03)00024-6 :scihub:

- Leclercq, S., Thézé, J., Chebbi, M. A., Giraud, I., Moumen, B., Ernenwein, L., Grève, P., Gilbert, C., & Cordaux, R. (2016). Birth of a W sex chromosome by horizontal transfer of Wolbachia bacterial symbiont genome. PNAS, 113(52), 15036–15041. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1608979113 :OpenAccess:

#isopods #Isopoda #Wolbachia #parasitism #endosymbiosis #parthenogenesis

April Jobs Report Shows 115,000 Gains, Federal Govt Employment Drops Another -9,000

The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) has released the April jobs report showing 115,000 jobs gained [DATA HERE]. Inside the numbers, federal government employment continued to decline in April (-9,000). Since reaching a peak in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 348,000, or 11.5 percent since the 2024 election.

The March report was also revised upward from 178,000 to 185,000.  The overall jobs gain was double what most ‘experts’ and economic pundits had expected.  The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.3 percent.

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 Jayant Bhandari: ‘Understanding India’

Full video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Mg4nXJ21Y

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I have only watched the short clip above, but approve of what he is saying and so am posting the full video as well. I may comment later after having watched the long version. People everywhere, but especially in the West, must learn cultural, anthropological and religious information as it really is and not see it only through the idealistic lenses of Western fantasy. ABN

 Jayant Bhandari: ‘Understanding India’

Full video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Mg4nXJ21Y

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I have only watched the short clip above, but approve of what he is saying and so am posting the full video as well. I may comment later after having watched the long version. People everywhere, but especially in the West, must learn cultural, anthropological and religious information as it really is and not see it only through the idealistic lenses of Western fantasy. ABN

OpenAI insist that they can’t make money from the putrefaction of human knowledge unless all of their input costs are government-subsidised and they can freely steal copyrighted works.

Good to know.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/09/openai-pulls-out-of-landmark-31bn-uk-investment

#AI #OpenAI #LLM #Parasitism #Theft #Slop

OpenAI insist that they can’t make money from the putrefaction of human knowledge unless all of their input costs are government-subsidised and they can freely steal copyrighted works.

Good to know.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/09/openai-pulls-out-of-landmark-31bn-uk-investment

#AI #OpenAI #LLM #Parasitism #Theft #Slop

Garden tips for 2026 | Master Gardener | https://www.allforgardening.com/1695364/garden-tips-for-2026-master-gardener/ #agriculture #botany #caterpillar #coccinellidae #CodlingMoth #fertilizer #food #garden #gardening #horticulture #insect #IntegratedPestManagement #Kingdoms(biology) #lawn #Moth #organisms #parasitism #perennial #Pest(organism) #PestControl #plant #PlantAgriculture #plants #PlantsAndHumans #RainGarden #seed #tree #weed #whitefly

Garden tips for 2026 | Master Gardener | https://www.allforgardening.com/1695364/garden-tips-for-2026-master-gardener/ #agriculture #botany #caterpillar #coccinellidae #CodlingMoth #fertilizer #food #garden #gardening #horticulture #insect #IntegratedPestManagement #Kingdoms(biology) #lawn #Moth #organisms #parasitism #perennial #Pest(organism) #PestControl #plant #PlantAgriculture #plants #PlantsAndHumans #RainGarden #seed #tree #weed #whitefly

The state as organism: not as political thesis, but as biological pattern. Why bureaucracies grow, dependency is no accident, and what "immune suppression" has to do with the Overton window.

🔗 https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/blog/2026-04-04-parasite/

#Sovereignty #PoliticalTheory #Parasitism #Freedom #Libertarian

Having red Nick Davies' book "Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature" [1], this paper is even more interesting:

"Categorical identity signatures can reduce host error rates during brood parasitism", Dixit et al. 2026 https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003667

"The African cuckoo finch Anomalospiza imberbis parasitizes several host species, each of which has evolved inter-individual variation in egg appearance (“egg signatures”) that facilitates recognition and rejection of mimetic cuckoo finch eggs. We demonstrate that egg signature traits in one host species, the zitting cisticola Cisticola juncidis, are categorically distributed. Field experiments reveal that zitting cisticolas make fewer Type II errors (accepting parasitic eggs) and Type I errors (rejecting their own eggs) than hosts exhibiting continuous variation. This challenges the long-standing expectation (from classification models, statistics, and signal detection theory) of a strict trade-off between these two error types."

[1] https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/cuckoo-cheating-by-nature-nick-davies/2880037

#cuckoo #BroodParasitism #birds #parasitism

Having red Nick Davies' book "Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature" [1], this paper is even more interesting:

"Categorical identity signatures can reduce host error rates during brood parasitism", Dixit et al. 2026 https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003667

"The African cuckoo finch Anomalospiza imberbis parasitizes several host species, each of which has evolved inter-individual variation in egg appearance (“egg signatures”) that facilitates recognition and rejection of mimetic cuckoo finch eggs. We demonstrate that egg signature traits in one host species, the zitting cisticola Cisticola juncidis, are categorically distributed. Field experiments reveal that zitting cisticolas make fewer Type II errors (accepting parasitic eggs) and Type I errors (rejecting their own eggs) than hosts exhibiting continuous variation. This challenges the long-standing expectation (from classification models, statistics, and signal detection theory) of a strict trade-off between these two error types."

[1] https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/cuckoo-cheating-by-nature-nick-davies/2880037

#cuckoo #BroodParasitism #birds #parasitism

ich hab am montag, als es noch sonnig war, es in manchen buschwindröschenblüten krabbeln sehen, dutzende winziger viecherchen, höchstens 1-2 mm lang.
ich denke dass das triungulinusse (triungulini?) sind, dreiklauige larven von ölkäfern, die in blüten auf wildbienen o.ä. warten, um sich von ihnen in deren nest schleppen zu lassen, das sie dann plündern

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triungulinus

#insekten #insects #krabbeltierchen #AuwaldRunde #BugOfTheDay #biodiversity #parasitism #nature #entomology #macro

ich hab am montag, als es noch sonnig war, es in manchen buschwindröschenblüten krabbeln sehen, dutzende winziger viecherchen, höchstens 1-2 mm lang.
ich denke dass das triungulinusse (triungulini?) sind, dreiklauige larven von ölkäfern, die in blüten auf wildbienen o.ä. warten, um sich von ihnen in deren nest schleppen zu lassen, das sie dann plündern

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triungulinus

#insekten #insects #krabbeltierchen #AuwaldRunde #BugOfTheDay #biodiversity #parasitism #nature #entomology #macro

Larvae (or triungulins) of Violet Oil Beetle (Meloe violaceus) on the outskirts of #Bath #Somerset #UK. These hang about on flowers and grab hold of the hairs of visiting solitary bees, which carry them to their nests, where they feed on the bee larvae and the stashed pollen. Oil beetles do not seriously affect bee populations - the presence of parasites and parasitoids like oil beetles is indicative of a healthy, functioning ecosystem
#Nature #Wildlife #Insects #Beetles #Parasitism

Larvae (or triungulins) of Violet Oil Beetle (Meloe violaceus) on the outskirts of #Bath #Somerset #UK. These hang about on flowers and grab hold of the hairs of visiting solitary bees, which carry them to their nests, where they feed on the bee larvae and the stashed pollen. Oil beetles do not seriously affect bee populations - the presence of parasites and parasitoids like oil beetles is indicative of a healthy, functioning ecosystem
#Nature #Wildlife #Insects #Beetles #Parasitism

Space, Lee Mullican, 1951

trying to think of something that relates to a new war started. This image has the feel of the inextinguishable light of Truth that is always there, shining through and through, knowing what you are, and why you do what you do. Inescapable.

Hi there! Yes, you! (always right there, inescapable)

#art #light #truth #weKnow #IsawWhatYouDid #capitalism #lies #economy #militaryIndustrialComplex #bronzeAgeReligion #notAgainAgain #parasitism #manipulation #exploitation #obvious #badMagician

Space, Lee Mullican, 1951

trying to think of something that relates to a new war started. This image has the feel of the inextinguishable light of Truth that is always there, shining through and through, knowing what you are, and why you do what you do. Inescapable.

Hi there! Yes, you! (always right there, inescapable)

#art #light #truth #weKnow #IsawWhatYouDid #capitalism #lies #economy #militaryIndustrialComplex #bronzeAgeReligion #notAgainAgain #parasitism #manipulation #exploitation #obvious #badMagician

The history of life on #Earth is often viewed through a strictly #Darwinian lens of competition—a relentless, zero-sum struggle where every organism fights for a larger slice of a finite resource pie. In this narrative, nature is, as Alfred, Lord Tennyson famously wrote, "red in tooth and claw," dominated by predation, #parasitism, and the survival of the fittest.
#WhatIs #Ecology #EvolutionaryBiology #Biology #SocialScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/wi02142601.html

The history of life on #Earth is often viewed through a strictly #Darwinian lens of competition—a relentless, zero-sum struggle where every organism fights for a larger slice of a finite resource pie. In this narrative, nature is, as Alfred, Lord Tennyson famously wrote, "red in tooth and claw," dominated by predation, #parasitism, and the survival of the fittest.
#WhatIs #Ecology #EvolutionaryBiology #Biology #SocialScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/wi02142601.html

For scale, the butterfly eggs in this shot are 1.8 mm in size.

"The overall winner in the ’18 and over’ category is Raghuram Annadana (Instagram: @macro_by_raghu) for his photo ‘Parasitic Play’ showing the eggs of a Banana Skipper butterfly (Erionota thrax) taken in India. He captured a parasitic wasp in the act of laying its own eggs inside the butterfly eggs. "

https://www.royensoc.co.uk/news/winning-insect-images-revealed-in-res-photography-competition-2025/

#Photography #Macro #Nature #Butterflies #Wasp #Eggs #Parasitism

For scale, the butterfly eggs in this shot are 1.8 mm in size.

"The overall winner in the ’18 and over’ category is Raghuram Annadana (Instagram: @macro_by_raghu) for his photo ‘Parasitic Play’ showing the eggs of a Banana Skipper butterfly (Erionota thrax) taken in India. He captured a parasitic wasp in the act of laying its own eggs inside the butterfly eggs. "

https://www.royensoc.co.uk/news/winning-insect-images-revealed-in-res-photography-competition-2025/

#Photography #Macro #Nature #Butterflies #Wasp #Eggs #Parasitism

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116020268562044519

It's not killing, so much as Vampirising.

Sucking the life out of everything.

Basically. #Parasitism

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116020268562044519

It's not killing, so much as Vampirising.

Sucking the life out of everything.

Basically. #Parasitism

Necromeny (Parasitology 🧬)

Necromeny is a symbiotic relationship where an animal infects a host and waits inside its body until its death, at which point it develops and completes its life-cycle on the cadaver, feeding on the decaying matter and the subsequent bacterial growth. As the necromenic animal benefits from the relationship while the host is unharmed, it is an example of commensal...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necromeny

#Necromeny #Ecology #Parasitism #Parasitology #DiseaseEcology

Necromeny (Parasitology 🧬)

Necromeny is a symbiotic relationship where an animal infects a host and waits inside its body until its death, at which point it develops and completes its life-cycle on the cadaver, feeding on the decaying matter and the subsequent bacterial growth. As the necromenic animal benefits from the relationship while the host is unharmed, it is an example of commensal...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necromeny

#Necromeny #Ecology #Parasitism #Parasitology #DiseaseEcology

RE: https://flipboard.com/@nbcnewyork/politics-rgcgp7v7z/-/a-4BcikPvGS5SCYOgNhcYdHg%3Aa%3A2781624701-%2F0

classic example of how capitalists’ express their #parasitism and then call it a #meritocracy.

capitalist parasitism, what most people call #corruption, needs to be understood as one of hallmarks of #fascism

Burrinjuckia (Parasitology 🧬)

Burrinjuckia is an ichnogenus of bioclaustrations. Burrinjuckia includes outgrowths of the brachiopod's secondary shell with a hollow interior in the mantle cavity of a brachiopod. Burrinjuckia was probably a parasite. They have a stratigraphic range from the Late Ordovician to the Devonian. The earliest Burrinjuckia species B. clitam...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrinjuckia

#Burrinjuckia #Parasitism #Paleozoology #Parasitology #TraceFossils #DevonianAnimals

Parasite-stress theory (Parasitology 🧬)

Parasite-stress theory, or pathogen-stress theory, is a theory of human evolution proposing that parasites and diseases encountered by a species shape the development of species' values and qualities, proposed by researchers Corey Fincher and Randy Thornhill. The differences in how parasites and diseases stress people's development is what leads to di...

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Parasitoid (Parasitology 🧬)

In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionary strategies within parasitism, distinguished by the fatal prognosis for the host, which makes the strategy close to predation. Among parasitoids, str...

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Necromeny (Parasitology 🧬)

Necromeny is a symbiotic relationship where an animal infects a host and waits inside its body until its death, at which point it develops and completes its life-cycle on the cadaver, feeding on the decaying matter and the subsequent bacterial growth. As the necromenic animal benefits from the relationship while the host is unharmed, it is an example of commensal...

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Parasite load (Parasitology 🧬)

Parasite load is a measure of the number and virulence of the parasites that a host organism harbours. Quantitative parasitology deals with measures to quantify parasite loads in samples of hosts and to make statistical comparisons of parasitism across host samples. In evolutionary biology, parasite load has important implications for sexual selection and ...

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