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Parasitic insect stubs (2 C, 69 P) Pages in category "Parasitic insects" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect ...
These are all holometabolous insects (Endopterygota, which form a single clade), and it is always the larvae that are parasitoidal. [22] The metamorphosis from active larva to an adult with a different body structure permits the dual lifestyle of parasitic larva, freeliving adult in this group. [23]
Among competing parasitic insect-killing bacteria of the genera Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus, virulence depended on the relative potency of the antimicrobial toxins (bacteriocins) produced by the two strains involved. When only one bacterium could kill the other, the other strain was excluded by the competition.
Many insects are parasitic. The largest group, with over 100,000 species [147] and perhaps over a million, [148] consists of a single clade of parasitoid wasps among the Hymenoptera. [149] These are parasites of other insects, eventually killing their hosts. [147] Some are hyper-parasites, as their hosts are other parasitoid wasps.
These can be categorized into three groups; cestodes, nematodes and trematodes.Examples include: Acanthocephala; Ascariasis (roundworms); Cestoda (tapeworms) including: Taenia saginata (human beef tapeworm), Taenia solium (human pork tapeworm), Diphyllobothrium latum (fish tapeworm) and Echinococcosis (hydatid tapeworm)
Pages in category "Parasitic bugs" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bat bug; Bed bug; C.
Ticks are a prominent group of mites that are parasitic on vertebrates, mostly mammal and birds, feeding on blood with specialised mouthparts. [44] Parasitic mites sometimes infest insects. Varroa destructor attaches to the body of honey bees, and Acarapis woodi (family Tarsonemidae) lives in their tracheae. Hundreds of species are associated ...
Fleas are wingless insects, 1.5 to 3.3 millimetres (1 ⁄ 16 to 1 ⁄ 8 inch) long, that are agile, usually dark colored (for example, the reddish-brown of the cat flea), with a proboscis, or stylet, adapted to feeding by piercing the skin and sucking their host's blood through their epipharynx. Flea legs end in strong claws that are adapted to ...