Parasite Collection

Schistosoma spp. blood flukes
Blood flukes mating. These parasites are found in man and other mammals. Snails are the intermediate hosts

Plasmodium sp. malarial parasite
Scanning electron microscope image of a malarial protozoal parasite. The parasite requires the anopheles mosquito to complete its life cycle

Sarcoptes scabiei, scabies mite
Scanning electron microscope image of an itch or scabies mite, a parasite that infests a wide variety of mammalian hosts including humans

Sea Lamprey, Lampern, and Silver Lamprey
Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), Lampern (Lampetra fluviatilis or European River Lamprey), and Silver Lamprey (Ichthyomyzon unicuspis). Date: 1865

Henry Stacy Marks, Royal Academician, author and lecturer (13 September 1829 ?? 9 January 1898). Studio portrait, within an article, Mr Marks on the Editorial Parasite, relating to his book

Spanish civil war. Un borracho! es un parasito: Eliminemosle (One: drunkard! it is a parasite: Let's eliminate him!). Propaganda poster by the Republican Side

United States Air Force - Republic YRF-84F Thunderstreak 49-2430 FICON parasite, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, seen with the retractable nose hook extended

United States Air Force North American T-6G Texan 50-1279, buzz-number TA-279, (msn 168-443), at the USAF Museum storage compound at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Albany bottlebrush, Callistemon speciosus. (Callistemon speciosum beta, Metrosideros glauca, Metrosidero glauco). Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus

Skate-sucker or spinulose sealeech, Pontobdella spinulosa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leachs Zoological Miscellany, McMillan

Warted sealeech, Pontobdella verrucata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leachs Zoological Miscellany, McMillan, London, 1815

Areolated sealeech, Pontobdella areolata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leachs Zoological Miscellany, McMillan, London, 1815

Asian tapeworm and sheep tapeworm larva
Asian tapeworm, Bothriocephalus acheilognathi (Botryocephalus latus), freshwater fish parasite, and Coenurus cerebralis, larva of the tapeworm Multiceps multiceps, found in sheeps brains

Copepod parasite on a sprat, Lernaeenicus sprattae
Blood-feeding copepod parasite on a sprats eye, Lernaeenicus sprattae (Lernaea sprattae). And another strange worm found on an oyster shell

Sand bee parasite, Stylops melittae. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804

Parasitic tapeworm of the genus Taenia. Copperplate engraving by Milton from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown

Intestinal worms: Pork tapeworm, Taenia solium 1, a, b, c, and human polycephalus, Polycephalus hominis 2, d, e. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur

Curtis British Entomology Plate 552
Hymenoptera: Callimome subterraneus = Torymus nobilis (Cynips Parasite) [Plant: Rosa pimpinellifolia (Rosa spinosissima, Burnet Rose)] Date: 1824-39

United States Navy - USS Macon - ZRS-5
United States Navy - USS Macon (ZRS-5) rigid airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting and served as a flying aircraft carrier, designed to carry biplane parasite aircraft

Wildebeest - with different species of social birds following them during their annual migration so as to feed on parasites (Connochaetes taurinus)

Taenia saginata, beef tapeworm
The beef tapeworm parasite can reach lengths of up to 10 metres. It is found in humans and animals which have consumed meat infected with the larvae

Taenia solium, pork tapeworm
The pork tapeworm parasite can reach lengths of up to 8 metres. It is found in humans and animals which have consumed meat infected with the larvae

Capillaria philippinensis, parasitic worm
This worm species (Capillaria philippinensis) is a parasite of the human small intestine

Roundworm
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a parasitic roundworms head (x 1000 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Sarcoptes scabiei, scabies mite
Scanning electron microscope image of an itch or scabies mite, a parasite that infests a wide variety of mammalian hosts including man

Cordylobia anthropophaga, tumbu fly larvae
Larvae of the tumbu fly or putzi fly common in East and Central Africa. Photographed by Martin Hall

Dermatobia hominis, human botfly
Second stage of the human botfly (Dermatobia hominis) in leg - contracted in Bolivia. Photographed by Martin Hall

Female parasitic wasp
A female parasitic wasp inspecting an oak apple which she will pierce with her ovipositor to lay her eggs

Flowering parasitic plants Orobanchaceae sp. (Orobanchaceae sp.). Karakum desert sand dunes - Saxaul trees (Haloxylon sp) Kopetdag mountains on background - Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

Ascaris lumbricoides, human roundworm
The human roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) is the largest nematode to parasitize humans, growing up to 16 inches long

Schistosoma nasale, bloodfluke
Scanning electron microscope image of a parasitic bloodfluke or flatworm. Coloured artifically by computer

Gyrodactylus, aquatic parasite
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a monogenean, Gyrodactylus, a small leech-like parasite on the skin of a salmon (x 600)

Dermatobia hominis, botfly
The larvae of the flesh eating botfly found on a cow, near Pelotas, Brazil. Photographed by Martin Hall

Victorian scrap - Wanted nice little filly
Victorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - Wanted nice little filly with " thou" or two. late 19th century

X-Ray - Hop Stem Parasite - Section of plant. Part of Box 165 Boswell Collection - X-Rays. Date: circa 1900

X-Ray - Parasite Specimens. Part of Box 165 Boswell Collection - X-Rays. Date: circa 1900

X-Ray - Antelope Parasite. Part of Box 165 Boswell Collection - X-Rays. Date: circa 1900

Man and woman cross paths in a northern street
A man and woman cross paths in a northern street. Above them is an advertisement for the News of the World newspaper, and in the distance some graffiti on a house wall proclaiming Armstrong Jones is

Sea Lamprey, Lampern, Planers Lamprey and Pride
Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), Lampern (Lampetra fluviatilis or European River Lamprey), Planers Lamprey (Petromyzon planeri), and Pride (Lampetra fluviatilis or Petromyzon branchialis)

Lousefly, Craeterina hirundinis, a parasite of the swallow.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, London, 1799

Anchor worms, Lernaeae, copepod crustacean fish parasite.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Flowering parasitic plants - sand dunes of Central Karakum desert - spring (Orobanchaceae sp.). Kopetdag mountains on horizon - Turkmenistan - April

Flowering parasitic plant - in sand dunes of Karakum desert - Kopetdag mountains in the haze on background (Orobanchaceae sp.). Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

Parasitic plant Orobanchaceae sp. - Central Karacum desert - flowering in sand dunes (Orobanchaceae sp.). summer - Kopetdag mountain range on background - Turkmenistan - former CIS

Diphyllobothrium polyrugosum, tapeworm
Discovered inside a 3.8 metre killer whale washed up on a beach in Cornwall in 1978

Cukoo and host eggs
From the collection of ornithologist Edgar Percival Chance (1881 - 1955)

Stylopid in amber
Stylopid parasite (Strepsiptera sp.) preserved in Dominican amber. This specimen dates from the Lower Miocene

Oestridae, botfly larva
Scanning electron microscope image of a botfly larva. They are parasites feeding on skin in the case of warble flies, nostrils in the flies that affect sheep and deer

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