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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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 -
Big Fat Tick! -
Maple leaf gall -
Trees Defoliated by Gypsy Moth Caterpillars (Lymantria dispar) -
Green Beetle Hanger - Hesperomyces virescens -
Septoria sedi -
Tar Spot - Rhytisma acerinum -
Privet Leaf Spot - Cercospora adusta -
Massospora cicadina -
Orange Blackberry Rust - Gymnoconia nitens -
Cedar-apple Rust - Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae -
Tulip Tree Scale (Toumeyella liriodendri) -
Bolete Eater