These particular worms make the wētā seek out water and get in. Parasites are an important part of the ecosystem so try not to hate them too much! Infection rate is low so don’t worry too much either
06.02.2025 20:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Petri dish with specimine
Worm or wētā intestines?
Time will tell!
#parasitology #entomology
12.01.2025 08:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New Zealand Bug of the Year
It’s that time of year folks! Time to vote for the New Zealand bug of the year. I’m voting for the giraffe weevil, who will you vote for?
bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz
#entomology #newzealand #bugoftheyear #giraffeweevil
05.01.2025 08:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Children’s drawing of a parasite worm with the reference image in the top right corner
Happy Chanukkah! This year one of my twins 5th grade students drew my dissection for me. A wētā with two juvenile hairworms inside!
#parasitology #hairworm
25.12.2024 10:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Abdomen of a cave wētā with worms that filled the thorax as well
I’d say there’s more worm than wētā in this case
#parasitology #worm
08.12.2024 10:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Example of a tank setup with a well camouflaged cave wētā among the substrate
Wētā #8 eating breakfast during observations
Can you spot the cave wētā in the Birds Eye view?
Cave wētā are known to be infected by the behavior manipulating horsehair worm. Keeping the wētā in a temperature and light controlled environment allows for behavior observations.
#parasitology #stem #womeninstem #wētā #zoology #entomology
02.12.2024 04:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
A Cell Press journal publishing literature reviews and commentaries in all parasitology disciplines. 2024 IF 6.6; CiteScore 11.6. Posts by the editor Pengfei Kong. Homepage: https://www.cell.com/trends/parasitology/home
Parasite communities of waterbirds 🦩🪱
M.S. Marine Science @ Nova Southeastern University | Fisheries and Avian Ecology Lab | Digenean Enthusiast
A page for past and present students to keep informed about what is currently happening in Zoology at Otago.
https://www.otago.ac.nz/zoology
Interested in kinetoplastids | Genetics enthusiast | Postdoc in David Horn's group
Studying Lepidoptera in my second life. Dogs & enjoying living in the arthropod world. First education was finance & economics. It pays the bills but drains the soul.
🇪🇨🧬 Biotechnologist (ESPE), 🦠Plant Virologist (UH Manoa), Postdoc (Cornell). Assistant Professor of Host-Microbe Interactions (Iowa State)
Microbial ecologist and bioinformatician. Interested in phylogenomics, and viral evolution. I also play way too many TTRPGs.
plant virologist in the making
I'm going to talk about my research, plants, viruses and life as a MSCA postdoc
The research project I talk about is funded by the European Union under HorizonEU research and innovation programme
Professor at the University of South Florida. Marine microbiology and virology, with a smattering of eukaryotes here and there because focus is for losers. Characterizing the global virome, one virus at a time. Owned by a very cute dog and cat. She/her
BSPP supports the global plant pathology community through research, education, funding & policy work. Founded in 1981, we champion plant health to protect ecosystems & food security. 🌍🌿 www.bspp.org.uk
Nomi - parasitologist, researcher, & creator of The University of Nomi, a #learning platform for parasitology education, field lab updates & other nifty science.
https://uniofnomi.wordpress.com/
Senior editor @science.org. Molecular biology, #DNA, #RNA, #gene regulation, #epigenetics, nuclear biology, #chromatin biology, 3D #genome, #synbio, #CRISPR and gene editing, other bacterial immune systems, and #AI in all these
Biomedical Scientist & Educator CSci FIBMS
Infection science, specialising in Parasitology; plus Tolkien, cats and horror.
Official twitter account of Czech Society for Parasitology gathering scientists from the field. Editors: @lukykony.bsky.social
Group Leader @ Wellcome Sanger Institute. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow.
Molecular & computational biology of parasitic worms of humans and animals.
https://helminthgenomics.sanger.ac.uk/
🇦🇺Aussie dad of 🧒+👶^2.
Nature Communications is an open access journal publishing high-quality research in all areas of the biological, physical, chemical, clinical, social, and Earth sciences.
www.nature.com/ncomms/
The mission of the BSP is to advance the study of parasitology, aid communication within the community, and promote dissemination of advances in the field.
http://www.bsp.uk.net/
Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UC Riverside studying brain aging and learning and memory
The Meissner Lab is based at the Chair for Experimental Parasitology, LMU Munich
Historian of Biomedicine & the Life Sciences, esp.of Parasitology, Cell Biology & Microscopic Imaging. Microbiologist. Cats. She/her.
