How to Use parasitoid in a Sentence

parasitoid

noun

• There are fly parasitoids that decapitate (or take the heads off) fire ants.
  — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
• The chrysalis is unpacked, inspected for any sign of disease or parasitoids, then pinned to foam boards and placed into the emergence chamber.
  — Kathy Berdan, Twin Cities, 12 June 2017
• Shockley’s favorite parasitoid might be the emerald wasp.
  — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
• Recently the researchers used bar coding to take a closer look at 16 species of parasitoid flies known to scientists for more than a century.
  — Richard Conniff, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2010
• Similarly, female parasitoid wasps will compete over the most desirable hosts in which to lay their eggs.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2020
• For proof of how perplexing these attacks are, consider what parasitoid wasps do to spiders.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Apr. 2019
• Karma is a real pest for parasitoids, tiny parasitic wasps that lay their eggs on caterpillars.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 30 Apr. 2018
• Most efforts to control invasive insects have relied on parasites and parasitoids, which lay eggs and complete their life cycles in or on the target species.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 15 Jan. 2020
• Sensory arsenal on the stinger of the parasitoid jewel wasp and its possible role in identifying cockroach brains.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2014
• Like many parasitoid species, the emerald jewel wasp is a specialist with only one option for a host—in this case, the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana.
  — Kenneth C. Catania, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2021
• All the while his ground-breaking discoveries continued: Willughby wrote on sap rising in trees, on ballooning spiders, on parasitoids in caterpillars and on leaf-cutter bees, later named Megachile willughbiella.
  — Jenny Uglow, WSJ, 5 July 2018
• Technically speaking, the alien is a parasitoid, an organism that, unlike most parasites, ultimately kills its host.
  — Kenneth C. Catania, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2021
• Shockley says other parasitoids use their hosts’ existing behaviors.
  — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
• Condos is also encouraged by the potential for parasitoid introduction.
  — Marc McAndrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
• Researchers including Hoddle are evaluating the parasitoid for possible release in California.
  — Marc McAndrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2024