parasitoid
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- noun
- /ˈpærəˌsaɪtɔɪd/
- Specialized
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parásitoide
- There is a very diverse and fascinating group of predators and parasitoids that will do things like eat insect eggs.
- parasitoid wasps
- hosts for parasitoids
- egg parasitoids
Examples
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Now, ARS-sponsored studies may uncover other promising parasitoids.
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Because they are well protected, larvae that create shelters from the leaves they feed on may be attractive hosts for parasitoids.
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A pathogen and several species of parasitoid flies are the most effective biological control agents currently known.
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Everyone, scientists and nonscientists alike, should open up an insect and see a parasitoid at least once in their lives.
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Parasitoid young hatch inside the sharpshooter eggs, then proceed to feast on them.
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In field experiments so far, we've found that parasitoids emerged from 66 to 71 percent of the eggs.
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Among the sharpshooter's most formidable foes, for example, are egg parasitoids—insects that unabashedly lay their eggs inside sharpshooter eggs.
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At the ARS South American Biological Control Laboratory in Hurlingham, Argentina, researchers are investigating the parasitoids that emerge from the eggs of a native South American sharpshooter, Tapajosa rubrimarginata.
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Many parasitoids, like wasps, lay their eggs inside the bodies of their hosts, leading to the host's eventual death.
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The larvae of certain parasitoids develop within living insects, ultimately causing the host to perish as they mature.
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Morphology
Etymology
Parasitoid is built from parasite ('one who eats at another's table') plus -oid meaning 'like', as in humanoid. So a parasitoid is an organism that is 'parasite-like' but that eventually kills its host, a meaning often used for certain wasps and their larvae.