In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death...

Parasitoid wasps are a large group of hymenopteran superfamilies, with all but the wood wasps (Orussoidea) being in the wasp-waisted Apocrita. As parasitoids...

The Braconidae are a family of parasitoid wasps. After the closely related Ichneumonidae, braconids make up the second-largest family in the order Hymenoptera...

behaviour manipulation as an evolutionary route toward attenuation of parasitoid virulence". Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 27 (12): 2871–2875. doi:10...

potential pests. Biological control agents such as these include predators, parasitoids, pathogens, and competitors. Biological control agents of plant diseases...

trophically-transmitted parasitism (by being eaten), vector-transmitted parasitism, parasitoidism, and micropredation. One major axis of classification concerns invasiveness:...

Aprostocetus hagenowii is a species of parasitoid wasp. It is a parasitoid of cockroach oothecae. "Aprostocetus hagenowii". Global Biodiversity Information...

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...

The Mid-Mesozoic Parasitoid Revolution (MMPR) was an evolutionary radiation of insect parasites and parasitoids from the Toarcian to the Albian. The MMPR...

whose host, often an insect, is also a parasite, often specifically a parasitoid. Hyperparasites are found mainly among the wasp-waisted Apocrita within...

migrate over long distances. Many butterflies are attacked by parasites or parasitoids, including wasps, protozoans, flies, and other invertebrates, or are...

viviparous, gestating inside the mother and born alive. Some insects, like parasitoid wasps, are polyembryonic, meaning that a single fertilized egg divides...

species using parasitoid wasps, including Fopius arisanus. The parasitic wasp oviposits its own eggs into B. dorsalis eggs, the parasitoids are reared in...

and Ichnoviriform. Polydnaviruses form a symbiotic relationship with parasitoid wasps. Ichnoviriforms (IV) occur in Ichneumonid wasps and Bracoviriforms...

approximately 2 weeks after emerging from the host. O. ochracea is a parasitoid known to prey on several species of Gryllus field crickets including Gryllus...

Phengaris rebeli, similarly mimic Myrmica ants and feed on their brood. The parasitoid wasp Gelis agilis (Ichneumonidae) shares many similarities with the ant...

Dicopomorpha echmepterygis is the smallest known insect and a species of parasitoid wasp of the family Mymaridae, which exhibits strong sexual dimorphism...

Encarsia formosa is a species of chalcidoid wasp and a well known parasitoid of greenhouse whitefly, one of the first to be used commercially for biological...

jerks, pulling on the threads inside. Wiggling may also help to deter parasitoid wasps from laying eggs on the pupa. Other species of moths are able to...

Leptopilina is a genus of parasitoid wasp in the family Figitidae. The genus is best known for the three Drosophila parasitoids Leptopilina boulardi, Leptopilina...

and species such as many Calliphoridae, that rely on fresh dung, and parasitoids such as tachinid flies that depend on entering the host as soon as possible...

wasps, ichneumonid wasps, ichneumonids, or Darwin wasps, are a family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera. They are one of the most diverse...

while the volatile phenolic compounds may attract benefactors such as parasitoids or predators of the herbivores that attack the plant. Most plant resins...

natural enemies of the spongy moth and brown-tail moth, establishing parasitoids (such as solitary wasps) and predators of both pests in the US. Agricultural...

Diplazon laetatorius is a hover fly parasitoid wasp in the Diplazontinae subfamily of the Ichneumonid wasp family (Ichneumonidae) It was first described...

insects fall into three basic categories: predators, parasites, and parasitoids. Predatory insects are typically larger as their survival is dependent...

horse-chestnut. Over 60 generalist parasitoids have been recorded. However, for biological control a highly specialist parasitoid still needs to be found. A number...

are typical of protelean parasitoids among the Hymenoptera. Larvae (maggots) of most members of this family are parasitoids (developing inside a living...

several distinct stages: they begin their lives as an egg, which hatches a parasitoid larval form known as a facehugger, which then attaches itself to a living...

sportsman The number 70 in Catalan Language Setanta (wasp), a genus of parasitoid wasps Satanta (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...