what is an example, in nature, of something being a host and a parasite at the same time?
A flea with mites.
Swift
A leech with ticks?
The parasite of a parasite is a hyperparasite, like Ampelomyces quisqualis which afflicts Powdery Mildews, which infect plants. The mildew is thus both parasite and host.
Hyperparasite. Cool word.
So what's the bacteruim that feasts on the fungus that infects the mite that lives off the flea that sucks blood from the dog that begs scraps from the dude living in a trailer in his brother-in-laws back yard?
A gigaparasite?
Gigasite, for short. I read in Scientific American years ago about some microorganism that infected grubs and made them move out of dark places into the light so birds could eat them, thus spreading the bug. Nature's fucked up, yo.
ill propose that every thing is both (host and parasit) if you look closely enough. sort of like fitting into the food chain. "your gonna have to serve somebody" bob dylan wrote that
Wasn't that during his Christian phase? "To Serve Man"--wasn't that a Twilight Zone where the twist-ending was "as on a platter"?
you thinking soylent green ?
OK, I just checked, it was a Twilight Zone.
Well, there’s the food chain and there’s additive poetry. And then there’s good old Capitalism.
(A parasite is not a predator (unless it kills its host: then it’s a parasitoid) but it makes its whole living off the host, to point of living in or on it, without doing it any good service. If it helps the host, then it’s a symbiote.)
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- sarah 3-17-2004 6:59 am
A flea with mites.
- mark 3-17-2004 7:23 am [add a comment]
Swift
- alex 3-17-2004 4:55 pm [add a comment]
A leech with ticks?
- jimlouis 3-18-2004 9:39 pm [add a comment]
The parasite of a parasite is a hyperparasite, like Ampelomyces quisqualis which afflicts Powdery Mildews, which infect plants. The mildew is thus both parasite and host.
- alex 3-18-2004 11:06 pm [add a comment]
Hyperparasite. Cool word.
So what's the bacteruim that feasts on the fungus that infects the mite that lives off the flea that sucks blood from the dog that begs scraps from the dude living in a trailer in his brother-in-laws back yard?
A gigaparasite?
- mark 3-18-2004 11:17 pm [add a comment]
Gigasite, for short. I read in Scientific American years ago about some microorganism that infected grubs and made them move out of dark places into the light so birds could eat them, thus spreading the bug. Nature's fucked up, yo.
- tom moody 3-18-2004 11:26 pm [add a comment]
ill propose that every thing is both (host and parasit) if you look closely enough. sort of like fitting into the food chain. "your gonna have to serve somebody" bob dylan wrote that
- bill 3-18-2004 11:44 pm [add a comment]
Wasn't that during his Christian phase? "To Serve Man"--wasn't that a Twilight Zone where the twist-ending was "as on a platter"?
- tom moody 3-18-2004 11:55 pm [add a comment]
you thinking soylent green ?
- bill 3-19-2004 12:05 am [add a comment]
OK, I just checked, it was a Twilight Zone.
- tom moody 3-19-2004 12:11 am [add a comment]
Well, there’s the food chain and there’s additive poetry. And then there’s good old Capitalism.
(A parasite is not a predator (unless it kills its host: then it’s a parasitoid) but it makes its whole living off the host, to point of living in or on it, without doing it any good service. If it helps the host, then it’s a symbiote.)
- alex 3-19-2004 12:37 am [add a comment]