Female searches diligently on walls and banks for mason wasp nests which she enters, if owner is absent, to parasitise the larvae. |
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The females just clone themselves, and the males replace all the female genetic material and essentially parasitise the females as reproductive incubators of their own genes. |
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However, some lichens, notably those of the genus Diploschistes are known to parasitise other lichens. |
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The last remaining group, the siphonapterans or fleas, appeared in the Cenozoic, coincident with the radiation of the mammals that they parasitise. |
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Try organic sticky traps, or nematodes that will parasitise them. |
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