#parasitism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #parasitism, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/16/it-is-not-only-a-future-certainty-the-disaster-is-already-here-why-we-need-climate-fiction. The problem is, we are faced not just with #climatecrisis, but with #Polycrisis, including, e.g., #resource #depletion, various forms of #pollution, #biodiversity #loss & #overpopulation, as well as the threat of #armed #conflicts. The grotesque #inequality of the #capitalist #system makes it completely #unsustainable, as does its #ecological #parasitism. Failing any successful efforts to change it, it will #collapse. How do you represent THAT in #fiction?
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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
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#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
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Every type of #symbiosis that one would want to teach about or learn in middle school or high school - examples of #mutualism, #commensalism, #parasitism, #endosymbiosis, #ectosymbiosis
https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/ecology/symbiosis/
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Every type of #symbiosis that one would want to teach about or learn in middle school or high school - examples of #mutualism, #commensalism, #parasitism, #endosymbiosis, #ectosymbiosis
https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/ecology/symbiosis/
@science
@edutooters
#science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers #scienceteachers