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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Viscum cruciatum - parasite on olive trees -
Acorn Fig strangling a tree -
Find the stick insect - 4 -
Syzygites megalocarpus -
Hypomyces luteovirens? -
Coccinella septempunctata - w. parasite? -
Doomed Tachinid (Entomophthora muscae) -
Tolypocladium sp. on Elaphomyces sp. truffle -
Stem/Twig Galls on Rubus sp. -
Midge Gall/Fungal Leaf Spot on Viola sp. -
Complex Entomophthora muscae -
Parasitized Golden Spindles (Clavulinopsis fusiformis) -
Helminthosphaeria clavariarum -
Bolete Mould (Hypomyces chrysospermus) -
Rilaena triangularis with mites -
Phalangium opilio - Male with mites -
Monarch Chrysalis - Danaus plexippus -
Parasitic Bolete - Pseudoboletus parasiticus, growing on Scleroderma citrinum -
Mould-infected fungus, Heeswijk-Dintherse Bosssen -
Puccinia cnici-oleracei -
Onion Leafminer - Phytomyza gymnostoma -
Powdery Mildew on Squash Plant (Podosphaera xanthii) -
Twenty-spotted Lady Beetle (Psyllobora vigintimaculata) -
Tomato Hornworm parasitized by Braconid wasps