Parasitoid
Parasitoid is a term used for insects that play the role of common parasite. They spend a significant portion of their life cycle in or on other organisms whereas the adult parasitoids are free-living creatures. Unlike their closely-related sister group, the wasp, their needle-like appendage, called...
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my.upm.eprints.321672014-10-25T02:45:40Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/32167/ Parasitoid Adam, Nur Azura Md Yusof, Nur Athikah Roseli, Marina Parasitoid is a term used for insects that play the role of common parasite. They spend a significant portion of their life cycle in or on other organisms whereas the adult parasitoids are free-living creatures. Unlike their closely-related sister group, the wasp, their needle-like appendage, called ovipositor. Is used to lay eggs on or in their victims. The length of the ovipositor ranges from a millimeter up to 10 centimeters. Some species have a longer ovipositor which is 8 times their body length! The length varies deoending on the hots. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2013 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/32167/1/3-2-1%20complete.pdf Adam, Nur Azura and Md Yusof, Nur Athikah and Roseli, Marina (2013) Parasitoid. In: Nature's Yield and Wonders of Art (NYAWA)13: Insects. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press, Serdang, Selangor, pp. 32-35. English |
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Parasitoid is a term used for insects that play the role of common parasite. They spend a significant portion of their life cycle in or on other organisms whereas the adult parasitoids are free-living creatures. Unlike their closely-related sister group, the wasp, their needle-like appendage, called ovipositor. Is used to lay eggs on or in their victims. The length of the ovipositor ranges from a millimeter up to 10 centimeters. Some species have a longer ovipositor which is 8 times their body length! The length varies deoending on the hots. |
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