1) Biological pest control
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In parasitism, the participant that benefits, rather than the one that is being parasitized.
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A parasitoid is an organism that spends a significant portion of its life history attached to or within a single host organism in a relationship that is in essence parasitic; unlike a true parasite, however, it ultimately sterilises or kills, and sometimes consumes, the host. Thus parasitoids are similar to typical parasites except in the more dir...
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Denoting a feeding relationship intermediate between predation and parasitism, in which the parasitoid eventually destroys its host; refers especially to parasitic wasps (order Hymenoptera) whose larvae feed on and finally destroy a grub or other arthropod host stung by the mother wasp prior to laying its egg(s) on the host. ... Origin: parasite + ...
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an insect that feeds on or in another insect, and causes death in the host insect; one host is killed in the life of the parasitoid
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a specialized insect predator whose young develop entirely on a single host and kill the host.
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An organism that has a parasitic stage that feeds in or on another organism eventually destroying it, most parasitic Hymenoptera and Diptera fall into this category as usually only the larvae are parasitic.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: par′ă-sī′toyd Definitions: 1. Denoting a feeding relationship intermediate between predation and parasitism, in which the parasitoid eventually destroys its host; refers especially to parasitic wasps (order Hymenoptera) the larvae of which feed on and finally destroy a grub or other arthropod host stu...
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parasitoid Resembling or similar to a parasite.
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an organism that lives on or in another organism and eventually kills it.
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An animal that feeds in or on another living animal, consuming all or most of its tissues and eventually killing it.
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an organism that lives at the expense of another an finally killing its host
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