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Gardening with the RHS
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Parasitoid Wasps - What Is a Parasite?
A parasitoid wasp lays its eggs on top of or inside a host insect's body. The larvae inside the house insect will start feeding on the non essential tissues, killing the house insect while she is still alive. Once they've been infested, infected, or whatever one should call it, parasetized or parasetoidied, do they carry on as normal, or do they behave different so the host insects have different ways to just work around being infected?
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