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The term "parasitoid" was coined in 1913 by the Swedo-Finnish writer Odo Reuter, [3] and adopted in English by his reviewer, [4] the entomologist William Morton Wheeler. [5] Reuter used it to describe the strategy where the parasite develops in or on the body of a single host individual, eventually killing that host, while the adult is free-living.
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)
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 December 2024. Relationship between species where one organism lives on or in another organism, causing it harm "Parasite" redirects here. For other uses, see Parasite (disambiguation). A fish parasite, the isopod Cymothoa exigua, replacing the tongue of a Lithognathus Parasitism is a close ...
Bed bugs are parasitic insects from the genus Cimex, who are micropredators that feed on blood, usually at night. [7] Their bites can result in a number of health impacts, including skin rashes, psychological effects, and allergic symptoms. [5] Bed bug bites may lead to skin changes ranging from small areas of redness to prominent blisters.
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.
Some caterpillars even bite the female wasps that approach them. Some insects secrete poisonous compounds that kill or drive away the parasitoid. Ants that are in a symbiotic relationship with caterpillars, aphids or scale insects may protect them from attack by wasps. [18] [19] Parasitoid wasps are vulnerable to hyperparasitoid wasps.