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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Ichneumon wasp cocoon -
Sea Leech -
Bullet Gall Wasp (Disholcaspis quercusglobulus) -
Infected Beetle Larva -
Cedar-Quince Rust - Gymnosporangium clavipes -
Spongy Oak Apple Gall - Amphibolips confluenta -
Galls of Cynipid Wasp - Dryocosmus rileyi/Kokkocynips rileyi -
Ophiocordyceps sp. on a Beetle Larva -
Not the Whaleshark -
Pine-Gall Rust -
Elm Gall Mite - Aceria campestricola -
Grasshopper infected with Fungi -
A Predatory fungi (Cordyceps sp.) tht has killed and consumed an ant in the Peruvian Amazon. -
Witch Hazel Cone Gall Aphid - Hormaphis hamamelidis -
Gall Midge - Asteromyia carbonifera -
Orange Blackberry Rust - Gymnoconia nitens -
Blueberry Stem Gall - Hemadas nubilipennnis -
Ash Bullet Gall Midge - Dasineura pellex -
Ophiocordyceps sp. (parasitizing a beetle larva) -
Wahoo stomach fluke, Gulf of Mexico. Composite image. -
Rose bedeguar gall -
Oak gall wasp (Andricus quercustozae) -
Sympetrum meridionale female -
A copepod parasite on a hatchetfish, Gulf of Mexico.