Host

A host is an organism that is being attacked by a parasite or a parasitoid. For example, many parasitoid wasps lay their eggs inside the body of a caterpillar host. Fleas, on the other hand, actually live on mammalian hosts.

Shiny black Netelia vinulae ova attached to the integument of a mature Puss moth caterpillar host in the second/third thoracic and third/first abdominal inter-segmental grooves.

Related terms

• Biological control
• Brood parasitism
• Dengue fever
• Ectoparasite
• Ectoparasitoid
• Endoparasite
• Endoparasitoid
• Harvest mite
• Lyme disease
• Malaria
• Parasite
• Parasitism
• Parasitoid
• Questing
• Vector

Related groups of terms

• General biology

Related pages on this web site

• Observations on the ova and larvae of Netelia vinulae, a gregarious ectoparasitoid of the Puss moth caterpillar

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