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What is a parasitoid?

What is a parasitoid? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any organism that is parasitic during part of its life cycle, especially one that eventually kills its host.
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However, this parasitoid was completely absent from all sampled gall beetle populations.
Both female field crickets and the larviparous parasitoid flies Ormia ochracea rely on acoustic cues to detect and find singing male crickets.
A commonly used parasitoid has proven to be quite effective in the control of fruit flies in vineyards.
Nowhere in the animal kingdom are we more frequently reminded of this than among the parasitoid Hymenoptera.
A biological control programme against G. scutellatus is being implemented using the parasitoid Anaphes nitens.
In the case of many parasitoid wasps, other compounds come from the venom the mother injects with her eggs.

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