#trematodes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #trematodes, aggregated by home.social.
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Parasite of the Day: Bothrigaster variolaris
http://dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/08/bothrigaster-variolaris.html"#SnailKites, as you might have ingenuously guessed from the name, eat #snails! #AppleSnails (Pomacea spp.), to be precise. #Trematodes in the Cyclocoelidae family use snails as their hosts for the larval stage, meaning when those snails are eaten, little baby trematodes get to grow up into a mature adult in the body of whatever ate the snail (usually birds)."