- the host's expense,
eventually resulting in the
death of the host.
Parasitoidism is one of six
major evolutionary strategies within parasitism, distinguished...
-
whitefly in greenhouses. Historically,
parasitoidism in
wasps influenced the
thinking of
Charles Darwin.
Parasitoid wasps range from some of the smallest...
- trophically-transmitted
parasitism (by
being eaten), vector-transmitted parasitism,
parasitoidism, and micropredation. One
major axis of
classification concerns invasiveness:...
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behaviour mani****tion as an
evolutionary route towards attenuation of
parasitoid virulence".
Journal of
Evolutionary Biology. 27 (12): 2871–2875. doi:10...
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species are
parasitoids; the
females deposit eggs on or in a host
arthropod on
which the
larvae then feed. Some
larvae start off as
parasitoids, but convert...
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potential pests.
Biological control agents such as
these include predators,
parasitoids, pathogens, and competitors.
Biological control agents of
plant diseases...
-
large number of
species in
Ichneumonidae may be due to the
evolution of
parasitoidism in Hymenoptera,
which occurred approximately 247
million years ago....
- viviparous,
gestating inside the
mother and born alive. Some insects, like
parasitoid wasps, are polyembryonic,
meaning that a
single fertilized egg divides...
-
predators are animals. Some
consumers use
multiple methods; for example, in
parasitoid wasps, the
larvae feed on the hosts'
living tissues,
killing them in the...
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smaller fleas to bite 'em. And so
proceeds ad infinitum.
Hyperparasitoid Parasitoidism is now
treated as one of six
evolutionary strategies within parasitism...
