How to use in-sentence of “parasitoid”:
– Biological control agents such as tiny parasitoid wasps and Coccinellid beetles also work on them.
– Almost all parasitoid wasps are descended from this clade.
– Host insects have evolved a range of defences against parasitoid wasps, including hiding, wriggling, and camouflage markings.
– Other animals which have this reproductive method are parasitoid wasps, certain flatworms and various aquatic invertebrates.
– In Britain there are about 6500 species of Hymenoptera and just one parasitoid superfamily, the Ichneumonoidea, has nearly half of them.
Example sentences of “parasitoid”:
- It is a parasitoid on bees and wasps.
- The parasitoid wasps include some very large groups.
- The host remains alive until the parasitoid larvae are mature, dying later when the parasitoids pupate, or when they emerge as adults.
– It is a parasitoid on bees and wasps.
– The parasitoid wasps include some very large groups.
– The host remains alive until the parasitoid larvae are mature, dying later when the parasitoids pupate, or when they emerge as adults.
– Later they search the caterpillar’s body cavity for other parasitoid larvae, and it is these they attack and feed on.
– Even parasitoid wasps are vulnerable to hyperparasitoid wasps.
– In fact, the group with the most species is not colonial; it is the vast number of parasitoid wasps, such as the Ichneumons.
– This phage makes the aphid relatively immune to their parasitoid wasps by killing many of the eggs.
– In endoparasitoids, host immune cells can encapsulate the eggs and larvae of parasitoid wasps.
– These viruses suppress the larva’s immune system and allow the parasitoid to grow inside the host undetected.
– Also, genes from the polydnavirus in the host alter host development and metabolism to be good for the growth and survival of the parasitoid larva.
– The Braconidae are a Family family of parasitoid wasps.
– These viruses are part of a unique biological system with three parts: a parasitoid wasp, an insect larva, and the virus.