Parasites & Derivatives

One more reminder, as if any more were needed, that we are embedded in a world we do not control:

Nature's Revenge: Goldman Sachs Attacked by Bedbugs

and this: NYC Looking for a Bedbug Czar

I admit to having a certain fondness for hematophagous ectoparasites, having spent (perhaps too many) years in an earlier life studying the evolution and comparative morphology of fleas.