Pestilence in Nature
This list includes organisms that are affected from any kind of affliction, such as parasitism or disease- including fungal infections, parasitism, galls, blight, cankers, leaf spot, mealybugs, aphids, mange, tick infestation, chytridiomycosis, mite infestation, white-nose syndrome, caterpillar infestation damage, parasitic plants, etc.
Christine Young created this list 7 years ago
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Big Fat Tick! -
Maple leaf gall -
Trees Defoliated by Gypsy Moth Caterpillars (Lymantria dispar) -
Hesperomyces harmoniae on Harmonia axyridis -
Septoria sedi -
Tar Spot - Rhytisma acerinum -
Privet Leaf Spot - Cercospora adusta -
Massospora cicadina -
Orange Blackberry Rust - Gymnoconia nitens -
Cedar-apple Rust - Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae -
Tulip Tree Scale (Toumeyella liriodendri) -
Bolete Eater -
European mistletoe - Viscum album -
Beef Tapeworm - Taenia saginata -
Pinworm - Enterobius vermicularis -
Parasitoid Wasp - Podagrion sp. -
Elongate Hemlock Scale - Fiorinia externa -
Shortneedle Conifer Scale - Dynaspidiotus tsugae -
Gerridae nymph full o'mites -
parasitic water mite on Diplacodes trivialis -
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) Ovisacs - Adelges tsugae -
Blood Fluke (Male) - Schistosoma mansoni -
Pork Worm (Female) - Trichinella spiralis -
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) - Rickettsia rickettsii