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 3 years ago
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Taphrina polystichi on Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) -
Oak Leaf Blister Disease - Taphrina caerulescens -
Protocrea pallida on Tyromyces chioneus -
Gypsy Moth Caterpillar (Lymantria dispar) -
Red Horn? -
Cedar-apple Rust Gall - Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae -
Beech Bark Disease - Neonectria faginata -
Witch's Broom on Fir (Abies sp.) Tree -
Phareicranaus hermosa - frontal -
Black Knot - Apiosporina morbosa -
Arborvitae Leafminer - Argyresthia thuiella -
Fungus on Gypsy Moth Cocoon (Lymantria dispar) - Beauveria sp., possibly Beauveria bassiana -
Eastern Hemlock - Tsuga canadensis -
Rigidoporus/Oxyporus populinus? -
Leaf eyes -
Eastern American Alder Tongue Gall Fungus - Taphrina robinsoniana -
Egg Sac on Wasp (Polistes sp.) Nest -
Eaten Alive! -
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
