This is a spider mite.

Have we ever heard of a dust mite?

It's a little brain worm.

Darren dust mite and his family moved in.

You see in the upper left corner, you see a single predatory mite.

You're nothing more than a social parasite!

The parasite Dracunculus is ingested in drinking water, which is contaminated with larvae released as the parasite emerges from the host's skin.

Which is why the parasite is beginning to develop a resistance.

And here you can see this lady in action on your left hand side just pierces, sucks the body fluids on the left hand side of the pest mite.

After all, the meme for Shaker dom was essentially a sterilizing parasite.

Only the egg of the parasite will be inserted into the body fluids of the aphid.

Hookworm is a worm, a parasite of man, that sticks to the small intestine.

It's produced by the malaria parasite and it's a very interesting crystalline substance.

And here you can see this parasite in action, like in an acrobatic maneuver.

Now, Artesunate is a very effective drug at destroying the parasite in the early days of infection.

Facultative parasite a parasite that can complete its life cycle independent of a host.

Now, the varroa mite is what changed the game in beekeeping, and you can see, at the top right, the years are changing, we're coming up to modern times, and you can see the spread of the varroa mite from the early 1900s through now.

A parasite single who chose to live independently would on average lose 2 3 of his or her disposable income.

What you can see up here is a map of the world, and we're tracking the spread of this varroa mite.

So we thought, Well, we've done all these things that are focused on the Plasmodium, the parasite involved.

And the life of a moocher is not dignified, but you also can't live to work and do nothing else.

Here we are talking a parasite not a two legged parasite, but an eight legged parasite, of course.

In that case, a parasite gets into a mouse and it needs to get into the belly of a cat.

It's a parasitic brain worm that has to get into the stomach of a sheep or a cow in order to continue its life cycle.

The ant's brain has been hijacked by a parasite that infects the brain, inducing suicidal behavior.

The Franklin tree has no known pests, but it is subject to a root rot disease and does not endure drought well.

Well, it's because its brain had been infected with a lancet fluke that was needed to get into the belly of a sheep or a cow in order to reproduce.

But over the past year or so, researchers in Cambodia have discovered that what's happening is the malarial parasite is developing a resistance.

It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean.

Now this has been a huge problem for many years, basically since the late 1980s, when the varroa mite came and brought many different viruses, bacteria and fungal diseases with it.

This is a predatory mite just as small as a spider mite, by the way, one millimeter, two millimeters long, not more than that, running quickly, hunting, chasing the spider mites.

We also have another hemozoin oriented therapy for malaria a way, in acute cases, to actually take the malaria parasite and filter it out of the blood system.

News is spreading that ISIS fighters in the Syrian town of Rakka have been hit by a skin condition caused by a parasite known as Leishmaniasis.

In other words, we have these hijackers you've seen this slide before, from four years ago a parasite that infects the brain and induces even suicidal behavior on behalf of a cause other than one's own genetic fitness.

Last year, hundreds of volunteer biology and chemistry researchers around the world worked together to sequence the genome of the parasite responsible for some of the developing world's worst diseases African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease.

11. Calls upon the international community to support investment in the development of new anti malarial medicines and insecticides for the effective control of malaria in view of the challenging resistance of the parasite to anti malarial medicines and the resistance of mosquitoes to insecticides

And what we're seeing is not just the potential death of the Eastern Hemlock species that is to say, its extinction from nature due to this invading parasite but we're also seeing the death of an incredibly complex ecosystem for which these trees are merely the substrate for the aerial labyrinth of the sky that exists in their crowns.

It looks sort of like a fly. It has wings, it has eyes, it has antennae, its legs, complicated life history, it's a parasite, it has to fly around and find caterpillars to parasatize, but not only is its brain the size of a salt grain, which is comparable for a fruit fly, it is the size of a salt grain.