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Do mushrooms need sunlight?
What is food for a mushroom? That depends.
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dodder
Dodder (Cuscuta), a seed-producing parasite, entwined around blueberry (Vaccinium).
Courtesy of Dr. W.V. Welker, weed scientist, USDA (retired)
life cycle of the tick Ixodes scapularis
The life cycle of the hard tick Ixodes scapularis, a carrier of the bacterium...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
malaria life cycle
Life cycle of a malaria parasite.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
brood parasitism
The European cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) has coevolved with several other bird...
John Markham/Bruce Coleman Ltd.
Parasitoid wasps
Parasitoids, which parasitize other arthropods by depositing eggs in the pupae, larvae,...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Zombie-ant fungus
A deceased carpenter ant (Camponotus species) infected with zombie-ant fungus...
Oliver Thompson-Holmes/Alamy
parasitic dodder
Scaldweed (Cuscuta gronovii), a species of the parasitic plant dodder, which...
E.R. Degginger
Plasmodium vivax, malaria parasite
The malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax inside a red blood cell.
A.L. Leu
European mistletoe
Numerous European mistletoe plants (Viscum album) parasitizing a tree. Mistletoes...
© Dee/Fotolia
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