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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Phelypaea coccinea -
Phytophthora sp. -
Tussock moth parasitoid -
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) Ovisacs - Adelges tsugae -
Parasitoid Wasp - Family Eulophidae, Possibly Subfamily Tetrastichinae -
Banded Woolly Bear - Pyrrharctia isabella -
Didymella curtisii - Red plotch, red leaf spot -
Shield Bug Eggs (Pentatomidae) -
Close-up of Unknown Fungus-covered Insect Stuck to Monarch Chrysalis (Danaus plexippus) -
Diseased Monarch Chrysalis (with unknown, fungus-covered insect) - Danaus plexippus -
Helminthosphaeria clavariarum on Clavulina cinerea -
Wheel Bug - Arilus cristatus -
Spider Pathogen - Gibellula sp. -
Hummingbird Flower Mites in Panterpe insignis beak (may be Neharpyrhynchus trochilinus) -
Parasitized Monarch Chrysalis - Danaus plexippus -
Mushroom infected with the Bolete Eater (Hypomyces chrysospermus) -
Mite on Treehopper Nymph -
Colletotrichum trichellum -
Entomophthora muscae -
Cassida viridis - Parasitized larva and teneral pupa -
Bacteria - Bacillus anthracis -
Roundworm (Female) - Ascaris lumbricoides -
Orobanche anatolica -
Snowshoe Hare