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PARASITOID [5 records]

Record 1 2024-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
  • Organic Farming
  • Crop Protection
CONT

Parasitoids are small insects whose immature stages develop either within or attached to the outside of other insects, referred to as hosts. Parasitoids eventually kill the host they feed on, as opposed to parasites like fleas and ticks, which typically feed upon hosts without killing them.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
  • Agriculture biologique
  • Protection des végétaux
CONT

Mais qu'est-ce qu'un parasitoïde? Il s'agit d'un organisme au mode de vie à moitié parasite – il se développe au contact et aux dépens de son hôte – et à moitié prédateur, car son développement conduit généralement à la mort de l'hôte, dont il consomme les tissus. Les parasitoïdes sont pour la majorité des insectes. [...] Ils parasitent des hôtes arthropodes et sont donc des régulateurs naturels de leurs populations ainsi que des auxiliaires importants en lutte biologique.

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
CONT

Aborted parasitism occurs when developing parasitoids die for reasons other than the activation of the host immune system and their host also dies as a result of actions of the immature parasitoid prior to its own death.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
DEF

An organism that attacks and lives on another parasitoid.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal
DEF

Organisme qui attaque et vit au dépend d'un autre parasitoïde.

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
DEF

An organism that lives inside and feeds on a single host, which dies after the parasitoid has completed its larval development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
DEF

Organisme qui vit à l'intérieur et aux dépens d'un hôte unique, lequel meurt après que le parasitoïde eut complété son développement larvaire.

Spanish

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Record 5 1989-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
OBS

guild. An old term for a group of plants in some way dependent upon other plants, as the epiphytes, saprophytes, parasites, or climbing vines.

OBS

parasitoid. An organism with a mode of life intermediate between parasitism and predation; usually a species of hymenopteran in which the larva feeds within the living body of another organism eventually causing the death of the host.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
OBS

guilde. Un ensemble d'espèces taxonomiquement apparentées qui exploite localement un même type de ressources.

OBS

parasitoide. Organisme qui, pendant une partie seulement de son existence, vit exclusivement aux dépens d'un autre organisme, qu'il ne détruit généralement que lorsque son propre développement est terminé mais qu'il rend parfois stérile.

Spanish

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