SmugMug > keywords > parasite > Tucked onto tailfin of Striped Surperch, Fish Louse parasite.
Keystone Jetty, November 12, 2009
SmugMug > keywords > parasite > An ant-mugging fly (Milichia patrizii) chases down Crematogaster ants on a South African tree branch.  If the fly can catch an ant, she will force the ant to feed her.

filename: milichiid4
SmugMug > keywords > parasite > An Ant-Decapitating Fly (Phoridae, Pseudacteon sp.) attempts to separate a fire ant (Solenopsis macdonaghi) from her nestmates. Lone ants make easier targets.  

Parque Nacional El Palmar, Entre Rios, Argentina
SmugMug > keywords > parasite > Encyrtid wasp, Comperia merceti, emerging from a parasitized cockroach egg case.  Laboratory colony at the University of Arizona.

filename: encyrtid2
SmugMug > keywords > parasite > A hornworm rears up when attacked by a parasitic Cotesia wasp.

filename: Cotesia3
SmugMug > keywords > parasite > Eucharitid wasps (blue insect at right) are specialized parasites of ants. 

Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA
SmugMug > keywords > parasite > The pupa of a parasitic eucharitid wasp in a pile of Pheidole ant brood.

Chiricahua Mountains, Airzona, USA
SmugMug > keywords > parasite > An ant-mugging fly (Milichia patrizii) chases down Crematogaster ants on a South African tree branch.  If the fly can catch an ant, she will force the ant to feed her.

St. Lucia, KZN, South Africa
SmugMug > keywords > parasite > An ant-mugging fly (Milichia patrizii) forces a Crematogaster ant to give up her food stores.  South Africa.

St. Lucia, KZN, South Africa
Tucked onto tailfin of Striped Surperch, Fish Louse parasite.
Keystone Jetty, November 12, 2009
 > Tucked onto tailfin of Striped Surperch, Fish Louse parasite.
Keystone Jetty, November 12, 2009
Tucked onto tailfin of Striped Surperch, Fish Louse parasite.
Keystone Jetty, November 12, 2009
Photo by: JanKocian • see photo in gallery

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