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Parasitic flies (1 C, 98 P) Σ. Parasitic insect stubs (2 C, 69 P) Pages in category "Parasitic insects" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
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)
Main article: Human parasite Endoparasites Protozoan organisms Common name of organism or disease Latin name (sorted) Body parts affected Diagnostic specimen Prevalence Source/Transmission (Reservoir/Vector) Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis and Acanthamoeba keratitis (eye infection) Acanthamoeba spp. eye, brain, skin culture worldwide contact lenses cleaned with contaminated tap water ...
Parasitic mites use their hosts to disperse, and spread from host to host by direct contact. Another strategy is phoresy; the mite, often equipped with suitable claspers or suckers, grips onto an insect or other animal, and gets transported to another place. A phoretic mite is just a hitch-hiker and does not feed during the time it is carried ...
Flea, the common name for the order Siphonaptera, includes 2,500 species of small flightless insects that live as external parasites of mammals and birds.Fleas live by ingesting the blood of their hosts.
Parasitic wasps (2 C, 228 P) S. Slave-making ants (23 P) Pages in category "Parasites of insects" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
“That name palmetto bug originated in Florida. That's where people saw these big critters on palm trees. ... Bed bugs are parasitic insects that prefer to feed on human blood.
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]
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