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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parasite in water drop on dragonfly ( Amphiallagma parvum ) -
Parasite -
murder she wrote... -
The Chestnut Lamprey (Ichthyomyzon castaneus) -
Ant infected by Cordyceps Fungi -
Mucormycosis -
Black Oak Burl -
Parasitized false morel - Hypomyces cervinigenus -
Phylloxera spinosa -
Ocellate gall midge (Acericecis ocellaris)- -
Pachypsylla celtidismamma-Hackberry Nipple Gall -
Six-Spotted Tiger Beetle (with Mites) -
Blue Dasher (with Mites) -
Tomentose Burying Beetle (with Phoretic Mites) - Nicrophorus tomentosus -
Parasitic Fungus on Amanita -
The Plague of Gypsy Moths - Eggs, Pupae, and Adults -
Caterpillar Mummy -
Monarch Butterfly Chrysalis -
Dogwood Sawfly Larvae -
Great Spangled Fritillary -
Amanita Mold (Hypomyces hyalinus) -
Beech Blight Aphids -
Eastern Spruce Gall Adelgid on White Spruce -
Parasitized Cecropia Moth Cocoon - Hyalophora cecropia