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Alexis Gkantiragas
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I study bees and live on a boat and those are the two interesting things about me

PhD Royal Holloway on landscape epidemiology of pollinator parasites
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Sphaerularia bombi - a v freaky parasitic worm that infects bumblebee queens

#bugsky #bee #insects #parasite
April 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Queen Bee absolutely riddled with crithidia - a gut parasite which has a flagellum. Some of them can be seen wiggling here

#bees #science #parasite #bugsky
March 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM