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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

(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

(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

(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

 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

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

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

Fossil Amber Preserves Ecological Interactions between Ancient Ants and Other Organisms

Fossils trapped in amber aren’t just beautiful, they may preserve real …
#Lithuania #LT #Europe #Europa #EU #amber #ant #Balticamber #Burmeseamber #Cretaceous #Crownant #Dominicanamber #Eocene #fossil #Hellant #Insect #Kachinamber #Lietuva #lithuania #Millipede #Mite #mosquito #naujienos #Oligocene #parasite #Parasiticwasp #Parasitism #snail #spider #Stemant #termite #wasp
https://www.europesays.com/2816229/

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

Fossil Amber Preserves Ecological Interactions between Ancient Ants and Other Organisms https://www.byteseu.com/1835542/ #amber #Ant #BalticAmber #BurmeseAmber #Cretaceous #CrownAnt #DominicanAmber #Eocene #Fossil #HellAnt #Insect #KachinAmber #Lithuania #Millipede #Mite #Mosquito #Oligocene #parasite #ParasiticWasp #Parasitism #snail #spider #StemAnt #Termite #Wasp

https://www.europesays.com/ie/359805/ Fossil Amber Preserves Ecological Interactions between Ancient Ants and Other Organisms #amber #Ant #BalticAmber #BurmeseAmber #Cretaceous #CrownAnt #DominicanAmber #Éire #Eocene #fossil #HellAnt #IE #Insect #Ireland #KachinAmber #Lithuania #Millipede #Mite #Mosquito #Oligocene #Parasite #ParasiticWasp #Parasitism #Science #Snail #Spider #StemAnt #Termite #wasp

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

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...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite-stress_theory

#ParasiteStressTheory #Parasitism #Parasitology

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...

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

#Parasitoid #Parasitism #Parasitology #BiologicalPestControl

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

Today in the park, I noticed a lot of small flies around this one unhealthy-looking plant, a mint of some kind, that had been put outside the greenhouse. I looked closer to find…a flower crab spider (family Thomisidae, tribe Misumenini) feeding on a plant bug (family Miridae)! The small flies are kleptoparasites trying to get a bite of the spider's meal. It periodically flicked the flies away with its spare legs and moved around to get away from them, in vain.

I don't see flower crab spiders that often so this was a nice find.

#DailySpiderPic #spiders #flies #parasitism #kleptoparasitism #Araneae #Thomisidae #Diptera

We’re excited to announce Dr. Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy (Univ. of Rochester) as a plenary speaker at #ABL2025!

Dr Floria’s talk will explore how parasites reprogram social wasps—revealing deep insights into plasticity, manipulation & coevolution. 🐝

#HostParasite #Parasitism #Coevolution

#FridayFlyday: after seeing boxwood leaf miners emerging for the first time last weekend, the day before yesterday I saw lots of females ovipositing in the fresh new boxwood leaves!!

#bugstodon #insects #flies #midges #parasitism #galls #Diptera #Cecidomyiidae

Best discovery at this weekend's yard sale day: I saw a bunch of tiny orange midges swarming around certain shrubs in people's yards. Looking closer, I saw they were molting from galls on the undersides of the leaves—often in bundles of three or four, leaving empty exuviae behind. Many were mating, presumably about to start the cycle all over again.

Just got around to looking it up. They are boxwood leaf miners, a kind of gall midge (family Cecidomyiidae). More information: https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN1291

#bugstodon #insects #flies #midges #parasitism #galls #Diptera #Cecidomyiidae

Necromeny (Ecology 🏞️)

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 commensalism....

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

#Necromeny #Ecology #Parasitism #Parasitology #DiseaseEcology

🆕Interview: In this interview, Daniela Mera-Rodríguez, talks about a recent publication on 𝐴𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑦𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑥 𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑠 species complex. #taxonomy #nquilinism #parasitism #speciation

https://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2025/04/23/diversity-and-evolution-of-the-emacromyrmex-octospinosus-em-species-complex-a-century-old-taxonomic-puzzle/

#Orchid's #nutrient theft from f#ungi sheds light on #photosynthesis-#parasitism continuum.

#kleptophagy #kleptoparasitism #mycoheterotrophy #mycorrhizae

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-orchid-nutrient-theft-fungi-photosynthesis.html

Down by the lake the other day, my favourite willow was positively covered with large purple aphids making their way up the trunk—and the air was alive with swarms of tiny parasitoid wasps (family Braconidae) preying on them! Here is one injecting an egg into an aphid. The aphids become swollen husks as the wasp hatches, feeds, and pupates, eventually cutting a neat hole and emerging as an adult, ready to continue the cycle. I have never seen the wasps emerging but hope to one day.

#bugstodon #insects #wasps #aphids #parasitism • #Hymenoptera #Braconidae #Aphidiinae

#MiteMonday: Did you know? Legally, you can take as many photos of ants farming ridiculously mite-infested aphids as you want. No one can stop you.

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #ants #aphids #Acari #parasitism #Parasitengona #Hemiptera #Aphididae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae

They're not the only mites that subsist on aphids—many populations were also parasitized by larval Parasitengona, a large group that includes red velvet mites, long-legged velvet mites, water mites, etc. (They can't really be ID'd at this stage, and there are many possibilities.) Level of parasitism ranged from a single aphid with one tiny mite on it to populations that were more mite than aphid!

(The mite in this photo is a bit on the larger side? They get much, much smaller and only a little bit bigger.)

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Parasitengona #parasitism

Parasitism (Parasitology 🧬)

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson characterised parasites as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one". Parasites include single-celled protozoans such as the agent...

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

#Parasitism #Ecology #Parasitology #DiseaseEcology

A _Uroleucon_ aphid is born! It's a girl…and it's a girl!

Aphids can reproduce asexually, and they give live birth, AND their clone babies are born already pregnant with their own clones. This helps them multiply so fast. (They can also switch to sexual reproduction and laying eggs.)

Note the cluster of orange-red parasitic mites on the mother aphid! They're something from the large group Parasitengona (which includes red velvet mites, sidewalk mites, etc.), but I need to do more research to narrow it down.

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #parasitism #bugstodon #insects #aphids #Acari #Parasitengona #Hemiptera #Aphididae

Update: went back to the trail between Fort York and the tracks; saw a lot of cool stuff but the highlight was discovering that the aphids on the plants there—mostly tansy and goldenrod—are covered with parasitic larval Parasitengona mites!!!

The mites eventually drop off and develop into free-living predators and scavengers. This is how most long-legged velvet mites (family Erythraeidae) and red velvet mites (family Trombidiidae) start life.

The best way to ID them is to rear them to adulthood (and then send them to an expert). With so many at my disposal I might actually be able to do this successfully.

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #bugstodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Parasitengona #parasitism

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."

a story, taken over the span of a few weeks

#DailySpiderPic #spiders #insects #Araneae #Theridiidae #Hymenoptera #Braconidae? #parasitism #parasites

#Introduction I am an paleobiologist documenting and interpreting the relative contributions of abiotic (#climate) and biotic factors (#parasitism) in driving large-scale patterns in the #evolution of #life. Our PARADIVE team is based at the Institute of Evolutionary #Biology, University of #Warsaw.

I am really into #cephalopods, #fossil #parasites, funny #tees and #movies, involved with #Paleosynthesis. I am #Paleontology and #Evolutionary #Science #Editor at #PeerJ and #Palaios.