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 one year ago
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Pucciniastrum goeppertianum on Blueberry (Vaccinium sp) -
parasitized with Helminthosphaeria clavariarum -
Gall Midge - Asteromyia carbonifera -
Pseudomonas savastanoi bacteria causing knots on olive trees -
Pentatomidae eggs parasitised -
Rhizoglyphus echinopus damage to Turnip -
Slug Guts with Parasitic Roundworm -
Caterpillar Cadaver -
Black Bread Mold - Rhizopus stolonifer -
Botryosphaeria dothidea -
Katydid covered in fungus, Andasibe, Madagascar -
Black Death - Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus (NPV) on Monarch Caterpillar (Danaus plexippus) -
Spinellus fusiger, Bonnet Mould -
Cytinus hypocistis -
Common spangle gall - closeup, Uden, Netherlands -
Pinesap -
Cynomorium coccineum -
Lymantria Dispar Multicapsid Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus (LdMNPV) -
Infected Helvella lacunosa. -
Superfamily Coccoidea - Scale Insect -
Goldenthread cordyceps - Tolypocladium ophioglossoides -
Rhopalomyia solidaginis - Goldenrod Bunch Gall -
Monarch Butterfly with an Ophryocystis elektroscirrha Infection - Danaus plexippus -
Red-backed Salamander - Plethodon cinereus