Parasitic Insects Crossword Clue

- Hair parasites
- Parasites: e.g. head —
- Parasitic insects
- Pesky parasites
- Tiny insect
- Wingless parasite
- pl. of Louse.

- A genus of parasitic insects including the fleas. See Flea.

- Drain off gossip? Honestly!
- Draw off liquid by means of a tube
- Draw out
- Tap fixed on ship
- Type of dispenser
- A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. The flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface, and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure; that is, about 33 feet for water, and 30 inches for mercury, near the sea level.
- One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata.

- An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc.
- A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata.

- A division of parasitic hemipterous insects, including the true lice. See Illust. in Appendix.

- A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvae and pupae of insects.

- One of a numerous family of hymenopterous insects (Chalcididae. Many are gallflies, others are parasitic on insects.