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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Fishy Meal! -
stinging nettle rust gall -
Coneflower - Echinacea purpurea -
Octocorals - Protodendron repens -
Polycephalomyces tomentosus -
Zombie Huntsman -
Entomophthora muscae on Blowfly -
Helminthosphaeria clavariarum on Clavulina sp. -
Curbed orange/white fungi in Heeswijk-Dintherse Bossen, Netherlands. -
Unidentified Pestilence -
Tetrataenia surinama (Acrididae) -
Mold on Bolete - Syzygites megalocarpus -
Spider killed by cordyceps, Caquetá, Colombia -
Black beetle (Carabidae > Dercylus sp.), Caquetá,Colombia -
Spongy Moth (Egg Masses, Larval and Pupal Exuviae) - Lymantria dispar -
Parasitized Hickory Midge Gall - Caryomyia conoidea -
Hickory Smooth Gumdrop Gall - Caryomyia sanguinolenta -
Parasitic Mold - Hypomyces cervinus -
Fungus on Fungus -
Ochre Gillgobbler - Hypomyces lateritius -
Parasitic Fungus - Ophiocordyceps unilateralis -
Summer Bunch Rot (Sour Rot) or Rhizopus arrhizus -
White fungus or Sclerotinia sclerotiorum on an infected carrot -
Blue Mold or Penicillium digitatum on a navel orange