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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Ash Bullet Gall Midge - Dasineura pellex -
Dasineura crataegibedeguar Galls on Hawthorn (Crataegus sp.) -
Gall made by Asteromyia carbonifera, a gall midge fly, and Botryosphaeria dothidea (aka Sclerotium asteris), a fungus -
Hesperomyces harmoniae on Harmonia axyridis -
Isaria tenuipes -
leaf gall -
Campopleginae cocoon and empty caterpillar skin -
American Bullfrog with Mosquitoes - Lithobates catesbeianus -
Coral Spot - Nectria cinnabarina -
Hesperomyces virescens on unspotted Har.axy. -
Cordyceps tuberculata on moth, Rio Ñambi, Colombia -
Phanerochaete chrysorhizon -
Cabbage Aphids - Brevicoryne brassicae -
Parasitized Crane Fly -
Plicosepalus acaciae -
Cordyceps curculionum - closeup, La Planada Nature Reserve, Colombia -
Diplodia tumefaciens -
Cryptodiaporthe corni (Golden Canker) -
Woolly Bear Caterpillar - Pyrrharctia isabella -
Arceuthobium pusillum -
Uromyces ari-triphylli -
Hydnophlebia chrysorhiza -
Hypoxylon Oak Canker (Biscogniauxia atropunctata) -
Ophiocordyceps dipterigena - side view, Putumayo, Colombia