Sentence examples for host feeding from inspiring English sources
(Lili's scenes with Eva mostly take place over tea, where Eva is literally and figuratively "the host," feeding the parasitic Lili).
Host feeding by E. nassaui (solo or paired) generally was confined to the first egg attacked within a batch.
This study developed an artificial feeding (AF) method to replace direct host feeding (DHF) for the maintenance of Aedes aegypti and Anopheles minimus mosquito colonies.
After attack of the first egg, solo females continued parasitism of the remaining eggs (without further host feeding) sometimes separated by short periods of resting, grooming or walking about the egg batch.
Owner and intruder females followed the sequence of parasitism-related behaviours displayed by solo females (drum, probe and oviposit with host feeding on the first egg attacked) when not interrupted by the actions of their competitor.
The parasitism sequence for E. nassaui was similar to the behaviour of Pachycrepoideus vindemiae (Goubault et al. 2007) and D. basalis (Mohamad et al. 2013), except for the frequency of host feeding.
The percentage of infection status of these adults was used to determine the acquisition of the symbiont via either host-feeding or feeding on infected honeydew (scenarios 2 and 3 above).
Successful integrated pest management (IPM) control programmes depend on many factors which include host parasitoid ratios, starting densities, timings of parasitoid releases, dosages and timings of insecticide applications and levels of host-feeding and parasitism.
One possible reason for that difference may be the localization of the two symbionts: Rickettsia is abundant and accessible in the host hemolymph consumed during the process of host-feeding while Hamiltonella is sequestered within the bacteriomes [30].
On the basis of their vector competence and host-feeding patterns, Cx. tarsalis may be the principal vector in rural agricultural ecosystems; in addition, members of the Cx.
These peptides, when ingested with the blood meal, help control bacterial growth in the gut and may also protect their host-feeding lesions from infection.
