Pestilence in Nature
This list includes organisms that are suffering from any kind of affliction 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, etc.
Christine Young created this list one year ago
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Goldenthread cordyceps - Tolypocladium ophioglossoides -
Rhopalomyia solidaginis - Goldenrod Bunch Gall -
Monarch Butterfly with an Ophryocystis elektroscirrha Infection - Danaus plexippus -
Red-backed Salamander - Plethodon cinereus -
Taphrina sp. Fungus on Black Cherry Leaf -
Bullseye Leaf Spot (Phyllosticta minima) -
Hypomyces lateritius (Underside) -
Hesperomyces virescens on Har.axy. f. conspicua -
Sweetleaf (Symplocos tinctoria) -
Smilax Leaf Galls (Meunieriella on-smilax) -
Globular Gall - Phylloxera sp. -
Unknown - Gall/Fungus/Other? -
Linear Leaf Mines- Ophiomyia maura -
Ant (Camponotus?) tending leaf hopper nymphs -
Fly-Speck Leaf Spot (Ophiodothella vaccinii) -
Bacterial Leaf Spot (Pseudomonas spp.) on Eastern Redbud Leaves -
Whiteflies - Family Aleyrodidae -
Ash sphinx parasitized by Braconid wasps -
Corn smut, hongos del choclo (Quechua), elote (Nahuatl). -
Unknown Leaf Spot on Hemp Dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum) -
Unidentified Insect - Infected with Fungus(?) -
Lymantria Dispar Multicapsid Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus (LdMNPV) -
Furia ithacensis - Pathogenic Fungus on Snipe Fly (Rhagio sp.) -
Furry Oak Leaf Gall Wasp (Callirhytis furva) on Water Oak (Quercus nigra)
