Posts Tagged: worms

Host and a Parasite: Battle of Sand Field Crickets vs. Horsehair Worms

If you were a sand field cricket, you would not like horsehair worms. "The horsehair worm (Paragordius varius) is a long-lived parasite that...

A sand field cricket (Gryllus firmus), and a horsehair worm (Paragordius varius). (Photos courtesy of Amy Worthington)

A sand field cricket (Gryllus firmus), and a horsehair worm (Paragordius varius). (Photos courtesy of Amy Worthington)

Don't Miss the Nematodes at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day

Don't miss the nematodes at the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 18. The daylong event, known as a "Super Science...

Nematologist Shahid Siddique explains some of the display items during a previous UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Nematologist Shahid Siddique explains some of the display items during a previous UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis Entomology/Nematology Fall Seminars Begin Wednesday, Sept. 21

The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's series of 11 seminars for the fall season will begin Wednesday, Sept. 21 with a...

Cornroot worms will be discussed at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's first seminar of the fall season. Speaker is assistant professor Nicholas "Nick" Miller of Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. (Photo of cornfield courtesy of Wikipedia)

Cornroot worms will be discussed at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's first seminar of the fall season. Speaker is assistant professor Nicholas "Nick" Miller of Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. (Photo of cornfield courtesy of Wikipedia)

Makedonka Mitreva and the World of Parasitic Worms, Poverty and Solutions

You'll enter the world of parasitic worms, poverty and solutions when you listen to the virtual seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of...

The website of Makedonka Mitreva, professor of medicine and genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis

The website of Makedonka Mitreva, professor of medicine and genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis

These Microscopic Parasitic Nematodes or Round Worms Spit Venom

Who knew? Who knew that you, along with billions of other people, could be infected with undetected microscopic parasitic nematodes, or round worms?...

A scanning electron micrograph of a nematode, a Steinernema carpocapsae, spitting venom. (Image by Adler Dillman)

A scanning electron micrograph of a nematode, a Steinernema carpocapsae, spitting venom. (Image by Adler Dillman)

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