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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mallow rust -
Parasitic Bolete - Pseudoboletus parasiticus, growing on Scleroderma citrinum -
Sayaca Tanager (Thraupis sayaca) with a pox virus -
zombie fly fungus -
Geometrid Caterpillar - Family Geometridae -
Egg or Parasite Attached to Aquatic Beetle -
Red Fox (with Mange) - Vulpes vulpes -
Bolete eater - Hypomyces chrysospermus -
Epiphytic Brown Algae (Myrionema strangulans) Growing on Sea Lettuc (Ulva Lactuca) -
Spider Mite - Family Tetranychidae -
Caterpillar Cadaver Infected with Parasitic Fungus - Order Entomophthorales -
Furia ithacensis - Pathogenic Fungus on Snipe Fly (Rhagio mystaceus) -
Zombie! -
Fungi - Gibellula pulchra -
Leaf Grasshopper - Trigonopteryx hopei -
Celebrating spring -
Mite on Stick Insect (Orthomeria versicolor) - Order Trombidiformes -
Leaf Mines - Phytomyza plumiseta -
Cedar-Quince Rust - Gymnosporangium clavipes -
Parasitic Fungus - Hypomyces hyalinus -
Orgyia leucostigma Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus (Orgyia leucostigma NPV/OrleNPV) -
Braconid Wasp Cocoons on a Banded Tussock Moth Larva -
Gypsy Moth Caterpillars - Lymantria dispar -
Insect/Mite Galls or Fungus