Visual guide to pests of mason bees. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #bees #insects #osmia #wasps #mites #parasites https://extension.psu.edu/enemies-of-mason-bees
@JoeGrowling
Cool, but you don't remove parasites by taxing them, it doesn't work like that.
Ask any cancer survivor, 100% of them didn't tax their tumors. The big ones have to be removed, their remains have to be burnt alive, all their satellites have to be cleansed with chemical extermination.
This may leave big holes and cost you some hair, but everything gets replaced by sane structures in the end and it saves your life.
Taxes only prevent their return.
Young lumpfish
Grown to help clean parasites of salmon in pens
Adaptations for the intertidal, like suction cups on their bellies
Very interesting evolutionary adaption
For #Trump and #Musk it's an eternal battle between the #Producers and the #Parasites, the #Makers and the #Takers
La avispa parasitoide Hymenoepimecis argyraphaga de Costa Rica paraliza a la araña de franjas blancas (Leucauge argyra) y le adosa un huevo, cuya larva se alimentará de su hemolinfa al eclosionar. Eso no es todo. Para completar la metamorfosis, la larva inyecta sustancias que alteran el comportamiento de la araña para que construya una tela reforzada donde podrá realizar la metamorfosis. Cuando la completa, la matará y consumirá.
William G. Eberhard, 2001 #insectos #insects #parasitos #parasites
@Schubertsworld >> Know your #parasites — Ticks, Worms, #Billionaires
@celeduc >> I'm not the biggest fan of dehumanization, but I'll allow it with billionaires as they believe they're above humanity, apex predators…
It's not what they believe, but what they do.
Like all parasites, they nourish off their hosts and eventually kill them.
It's an existential struggle for both. The relationship is not symbiotic.
I've been listening to an audiobook on parasites and it's very unfortunate that narrator mispronounces larvae and genus. Among many other words. #science #audiobook #books #biology #parasites
“This also is most necessary, that thou discover that true Will in every Case, for thou art born into Dis-Ease; where are many false and perverted Wills, monstrous Growths, Parasites, Vermin are they, adherent to thee by Vice of Heredity, or of Environment or of evil Training. And of all these Things the subtlest and most terrible, Enemies without Pity, destructive to thy will, and a Menace and Tyranny even to thyself, are the Ideals and Standards of the Slave-gods, false Religion, false Ethics, even false Science.”
Science again showing why we cook our food, instead of enjoying salad or uncooked crayfish (the culprit here).
Do you want brain worms? This is how you get brainworms.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-parasitic-worms-directly-invade-your-brain/ #Parasites #Brainworms #Science #Biology
114: StAR: Delusional Infestation
Febrile • Sara Dong
This StAR episode features the CID State-of-the-Art Review on delusional infestation.
Alexandra Mendelsohn (Dell Medical School, University of Texas Austin)
Alysse Wurcel (Boston Medical Center)
@Alysse
#Genomic tools reveal health insights for endangered Indiana #bats.
#wildlife #microbiome #parasites #Eimeria #faeces
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-genomic-tools-reveal-health-insights.html
Hawaiian parasitic flies develop better hearing to locate host crickets https://wp.stolaf.edu/news/st-olaf-research-hawaiian-parasitic-flies-develop-better-hearing-to-locate-host-crickets
Neural and behavioral #evolution in an eavesdropper with a rapidly evolving host https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00048-X
"some male Pacific field #crickets were evolving new songs through wing mutations, so as not to become prey to parasitic #flies. In turn, the flies have improved in their ability to find the crickets... Will the crickets evolve new songs, yet again?"
19-Feb-2025
Parasitic orchids live healthier
Why have some #orchids stopped photosynthesis and become #parasites feeding on #fungi? Kobe University researchers found that in at least one species the transition may be driven by the opportunity more than by the need to do so.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1073397 #science #ecology #plants
La garrapata Argas vespertilionis es un ectoparásito hematófago de los murciélagos del Viejo Mundo. Gilles San Martin #parasitos #parasites
Burning in woman’s legs turned out to be slug #parasites migrating to her #brain - https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/burning-in-womans-legs-turned-out-to-be-slug-parasites-digging-in-her-brain/ "The worms migrate through the blood or along peripheral nerves to get to the central nervous system. Movement along the peripheral nerves is what causes sensory abnormalities, like the woman's burning feet."
