How to Use parasitize in a Sentence

parasitize

verb

• If they're drawn, the wasps that parasitize them should be drawn, too.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2012
• The cage must provide protection against some predators but probably not against the wasps that parasitize it.
  — Johnny Simon, Quartz, 8 Sep. 2019
• Scientists think the genet gets access to insects that are stirred up by the larger animals or which parasitize them.
  — Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, 2 Sep. 2016
• The wasps parasitize the borers’ eggs to reduce the borer population, Teerling said.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• Follow-up studies have shown the wasps can find beetles, parasitize them, and reproduce; in some trees, up to 80% of ash borer larvae have wasps living inside them.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2020
• There are two other species of Thelazia worms that infect humans, and Beckley’s infection represents a third species now known to parasitize humans.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 Feb. 2018
• Horsfield’s bronze cuckoos—also small and sweet-looking—frequently parasitize fairy wrens’ nests.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• But humans moved in and cut forests, essentially creating more plains, allowing cowbirds to move into more areas to parasitize more species.
  — Val Cunningham Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• These almost microscopic wasps emerge from the sandpaper-looking material and fly off to parasitize and destroy pest moth eggs.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2021
• As science journalist Rachel Nuwer writes, as many as 40 to 50 percent of all animal species are parasites, and almost every other species has at least one parasite that has evolved to parasitize it.
  — Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
• Fungi can also parasitize and kill insects, including those troublesome to us.
  — Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2013
• The individual scale insects are enrobed in fungal chambers which shield them from predators and the elements, though some are parasitized so the fungus can obtain nutrients.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2023
• Why doesn’t the mussel just release its young into the water column, like any number of other freshwater mussels (whose larvae also find fish to parasitize, only by floating around willy-nilly)?
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 16 Oct. 2015
• Worm-snails can also carry certain blood flukes that parasitize loggerhead sea turtles, which are vulnerable to extinction.
  — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2017
• The latest organisms that researchers have looked to are bacteria in the microbiomes of roundworms that parasitize insects (technically termed enteropathogenic nematodes).
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2019
• In some cases, multiple wasp species parasitize one another, leading to a Russian doll of parasitic interactions.
  — Christie Wilcox, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• Many other wasp species also use complex venoms to parasitize spiders, caterpillars and even wasp larvae—sometimes turning them into zombie larva defenders.
  — Christie Wilcox, Scientific American, 1 May 2017

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024