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The exact rate of parasitism is of great importance in making decisions about whether or when to apply insecticides.
Mortality was caused by a variety of factors, including parasitism.
All five species of large blue butterflies in Europe engage in this form of parasitism on red ants.

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parasitism | American Dictionary

parasitism
noun[ U ]
us/ˈpær·ə·saɪˌt̬ɪz·əm, -ˌsɪˌt̬ɪz·əm/
biology
the relationship that exists between parasites

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parasitism
Parasitism is reported as low, often with no response to host density and unlikely to have an impact upon the host population.
In the present study, both discovery and parasitism efficiency decreased with increasing egg batch density.
Levels of natural populations of larval parasitoids were measured by their parasitism rate.
No differences were found among the mixed cropping treatments and parasitism was lower during the long compared to the short rainy seasons.
A host's ability to counter the negative aspects of parasitism could depend upon a multitude of variables.
Post-parasitoid emergence, vacated hosts continued to consume very small quantities of food until their death, at 10-12 days post parasitism.
The text is organised into five parts, taking the reader through the sequence of events leading to successful parasitism.
Early in the season, cluster parasitism increased continuously over a period of five weeks.
Despite this accumulating evidence, it is still difficult to assess just how important parasitism is for community structure for at least two reasons.
At the same time, recent research has highlighted the role of parasitism in the dynamics of animal populations and the structure of animal communities.
This value is somewhat lower than the average 23% parasitism observed in the field for egg batches of a comparable size (fig. 2).
Some of the attacked nymphs died and desiccated during the rearing process and thus could not be dissected for parasitism.
Two of the three field studies using markrecapture techniques assessed host mortality and showed that host survival decreased as a consequence of parasitism.
The last review of this section concerns social parasitism, in various forms, in ant species.
Finally, we put this information together in a discussion of the impact of parasitism at the community level.
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