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More fun stuff to share from Parasitology class!Rhodnius Prolixus, Kissing Bug seen under a dissecting microscope. These are the vectors for trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease.
via The Bug Girl.
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lly-328 reblogged this from parasite-heaven and added:
It’s kind of pretty. The dissecting microscope image I mean - not the triatominae bug.
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Interesting and dangerous
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rzinz said:
You want some crazyness? Check out Sir Wigglesworth’s early work on insect physiology using these bugs. HE BASICALLY GLUED THEM TOGETHER IT WAS HORRIFYING
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anonymousthecat said:
Bleh! We would find these in my dorm in Costa Rica this past summer. Beastly lil things XP
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