parasitoids are ____ that are parasitic on insects
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Parasitoids (Insects) Parasitoids are insects with a parasitic larval stage that develops by feeding on the body of a single host insect or other arthropod. Feeding by the larval parasitoid invariably results in the death of its host, and the resulting adult parasitoid is a free-living insect.
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Parasitic disease A parasitic disease, also known as parasitosis, is an infectious disease caused or transmitted by a parasite. Many parasites do not cause diseases. Parasitic diseases can affect practically all living organisms, including plants and mammals. The study of parasitic diseases is called parasitology. Some parasites like Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium spp. can cause disease directly, but other organisms can cause disease by the toxins that they produce.
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Symbiosis Parasitism: A symbiotic relationship in which only one member of the association benefits, whereas the other is harmed. Example: Tapeworms are flat segmented parasites that live in the digestive tracts of some animals, including humans. The tapeworm gets its nutrition as the host is digesting food.
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- malarial parasite Plasmodium. obligate parasite (obligatory parasite) one that is entirely dependent upon a host for its survival. periodic parasite one that parasitizes a host for short periods. temporary parasite one that lives free of its host during part of its life cycle.
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Hemiptera A few hemipterans are haematophagic (often described as  parasites ), feeding on the blood of larger animals. These include bedbugs and the triatomine kissing bugs of the assassin bug family Reduviidae, which can transmit the dangerous Chagas disease.
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Parasitism Many insect ectoparasites including bedbugs, batbugs, lice and fleas have lost their ability to fly, relying instead on their hosts for transport. Trait loss more generally is widespread among parasites.
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- : any of various hymenopterous insects (as a chalcid or ichneumon wasp) other than wasps with larvae that are parasitic on other arthropods. — wasp·like \-ˌlīk\ adjective. See wasp defined for English-language learners.
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Bill Clinton Biography William Jefferson Clinton is the forty-second President of the United States 1993-2001. At 46 he was the second youngest person elected to that office. Bill Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, as William Jefferson Blythe III. His father died. in an auto accident before he was born, and when his mother remarried, Bill took on the last name of his stepfather.
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How to Frame and Display a Quilt Block Over a Colonial-style sideboard in mint green, the frame hangs, matted in the quilt blocks' common, overall background color to further unify the group. A Colonial-style pedestal table blends with hardwood floors, while Windsor chairs are painted different colors, echoing the quilt blocks' variegated colors.
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- Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease caused by a protozoan parasite of the genus Plasmodium, which is transmitted from human to human by the bite of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes.
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COVENANT UNIVERSITY Plasmodium, a genus of parasitic protozoans of the sporozoan subclass Coccidia that are the causative organisms of malaria. Plasmodium, which infects red blood cells in mammals (including humans), birds, and reptiles, occurs worldwide, especially in tropical and temperate zones. The organism is transmitted by the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito. Other insects and some mites may also transmit forms of malaria to animals.
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- Parasitoid wasp. Females of the parasitoid wasp Neoneurus vesculus ovipositing in workers of the ant Formica cunicularia. The term parasitoid wasp refers to a large evolutionary grade of hymenopteran superfamilies, mainly in the Apocrita. The parasitic or parasitoidal Apocrita are divided into some dozens of families. They are parasitoids of various animals, mainly other arthropods.
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Symbionts, Bacterial (Insects) Symbionts, Bacterial (Insects) Many species of insect are host to symbiotic microorganisms. These symbionts have traditionally been classified as mutual-ists (beneficial), parasitic (harmful), or commensal (neutral). A variety of microorganisms among these symbionts are vertically transmitted, that is, they are inherited.
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What does the bus in the computer mean? Answers. Relevance. Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: The bus lines are the communicating electronic lines that connect different parts of the CPU to various other parts. In addition, the bus lines also link the CPU to different parts on the system board of your computer. The data flows in the form of bits along the bus lines.
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Chapter 123 â Host Seeking, by Parasitoids This chapter discusses how parasitoids seek their hosts. The chemicals produced by insect hosts that serve as cues to parasitoids are kairomones because the parasitoid exploits them to the host's detriment. Usage and context are important here.
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parasite 1. a plant or animal that lives upon or within another living organism at whose expense it obtains some advantage; see symbiosis. 2. the smaller, less complete member of asymmetrical conjoined twins, attached to and dependent upon the autosite.parasit´ic. malarial parasite Plasmodium.
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- INSECT PARASITOIDS. Unlike a parasite (which usually do not kill their hosts) parasitoids usually kill their hosts. A parasitoid is an organism that spends a significant portion of its life history attached to. (ectoparasitoid) or within (endoparasitoid) a single host organism which it ultimately. kills (and often consumes) in the process.
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Parasitism Another form of parasitism, such as that practiced by some ants on ants of other species, is known as social parasitism. (Social parasitism is a condition where a parasitizing ant species depends upon the labour provided by a host ant species within the context of a mixed-species colony.)
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Introduction to Fungi Many fungi can attack insects and nematodes, for example, and may play an important role in keeping populations of these animals under control. Insect-attacking fungi, called entomopathogens, include a wide range of fungi in phyla Ascomycota, Zygomycota and Chytridiomycota.ome fungi are specialized parasites of nematodes, rotifers, and other microscopic animals in the soil (Barron 1977). A common nematode predator is Arthrobotrys oligospora, a fungus that has evolved sticky networks of hyphae for trapping nematodes.
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- 1. Parasitism: parasite benefits, host is hurt. Parasitism is a relationship in which one organism-the host-is the source of food and/or shelter for another organism, the parasite. In this relationship, all of the benefits go to the parasite; the host is harmed by the relationship.
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Brood parasite Brood parasite - Insects. 1  There are many different types of cuckoo bees, all of which lay their eggs in the nest cells of other bees, but they are normally referred to as kleptoparasites (Greek: klepto-, to steal), rather than as brood parasites, because the immature stages are almost never fed directly by the adult hosts.
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- Parasites include multicelled and single-celled animals, fungi, and bacteria, and some authorities also include viruses.Those that feed upon human hosts can cause diseases ranging from the mildly annoying to the severe or even fatal. (See accompanying table.). Types of parasites. 2. parasitic fetus.accidental parasite one that parasitizes an organism other than the usual host. facultative parasite one that may be parasitic upon another organism but can exist independently. incidental parasite accidental parasite. malarial parasite Plasmodium.obligate parasite (obligatory parasite) one that is entirely dependent upon a host for its survival.arasites include multicelled and single-celled animals, fungi, and bacteria, and some authorities also include viruses.Those that feed upon human hosts can cause diseases ranging from the mildly annoying to the severe or even fatal. (See accompanying table.). Types of parasites. 2. parasitic fetus.
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- Parasitism is a relationship in which one organism (the parasite) benefits while the other(the host) is harmed. This is a positive, negative relationship. (Campbell)( Dionne L Rice Jr) The parasite usually lives on or inside the other organism. For example, mosquito is a parasite, feeding on a human while transferring the disease called Malaria.
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- The scale insects can be found in the middle layer of the fungus, in chambers that are only slightly larger than the insects, which are connected with numerous tunnels. Some of these insects are parasitized by the fungus, which have inserted haustoria, specialized feeding hyphae, into the insect body.
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- There are 3 types of symbiosis: Parasitism is a relationship in which one organism - the host - is the source of food and/or shelter for another organism, the parasite. In this relationship, all of the benefits go to the parasite; the host is harmed by the relationship. An example is a human and a tapeworm living in the intestines.