- but many parasites, and the
majority of
protozoans and
helminths that
parasitise animals, are
specialists and
extremely host-specific. An
early basic,...
-
relationships between China and the rest of the world.
Insects that feed on or
parasitise other insects are
beneficial to
humans if they
thereby reduce damage to...
- is not reliable. The
tarsi of
species that
parasitise birds have two claws,
while of
those that
parasitise mammals have one only. The
Amblycera are divided...
- are
ectoparasitic on mammals. One such species,
Platypsyllus castoris,
parasitises beavers (Castor spp.). This
beetle lives as a
parasite both as a larva...
- are
parasitised by
several organisms,
including acari and a wide
variety of nematodes. The slug mite,
Riccardoella lima****, is
known to
parasitise several...
-
Dermatobia hominis, is the only
species of
botfly whose larvae ordinarily parasitise humans,
though flies in some
other families episodically cause human myiasis...
-
Evolutionary biologists view
mosquitoes as micropredators,
small animals that
parasitise larger ones by
drinking their blood without immediately killing them....
-
being predatory at the
larval stage and some
being parasitic.
Animals parasitised include molluscs, woodlice, millipedes, insects, mammals, and amphibians...
- it has been
shown that
avian fleas that
exploit a
range of hosts, only
parasitise species with low
immune responses. In general, host
specificity decreases...
- 1857,
contains 81 species. Most
parasitise insects and
other arthropods, and the best-known
Nosema species parasitise honeybees,
where they are considered...
