PARASITES: An Illustrated Biological Textbook by a Six Year Old.
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Back in the early 1980's, my knowledge of the nature world came primarily from crude, early websites
called "books," and just like I do today, I'd take whatever I'd learned and cobble together a bastardized,
dumbed down version of my very own. The following notebook was uncovered from a box of drawings
and art projects shortly before I began grade school, and show just how long I've been enamored with
parasitology:
Haha, "germs" isn't even a science word,! You'll never amount to ANYTHING!
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It's called the scolex, not the head, stupid!
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Now you know just what a tick looks like on a person's hand.
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Now there's an eloquent scientific description.
That fish is having like the WORST day, isn't it?
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I only knew of these things from "a Golden Guide to North American Insects." The idea of a wingless fly living like
a tick fascinated the hell out of me then, and it does now. I've still never seen one of these things in person.
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These three louse illustrations are directly plagiarized from the same "Golden Guide."
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The lamprey is just like that, guys.
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He's not a parasite, but look how happy he is just to be a part of things!
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