Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous minute wasps of the superfamily Chalcidoidea, many of whose larvae are parasitoids of other insects.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
chalcidian and chalcidian.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of many small
wasps , of the superfamilyChalcidoidea , havingparasitic larvae
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In northern Australia. predation by various insect pests, such as chalcid wasps, may cause considerable seed destruction.
Chapter 48 1990
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About a fifth of the infested seedpods also contained the larvae of a small chalcid wasp, Spintherus leguminium, parasitic on the hapless weevils.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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About a fifth of the infested seedpods also contained the larvae of a small chalcid wasp, Spintherus leguminium, parasitic on the hapless weevils.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Notable reptiles include the chalcid skink (Chalcides ocellatus), gray monitor (Varanus griseus), snakes (Oligodon taeniolatus, Lycodon striatus, Coluber spinalis), and the Central Asian cobra (Naja oxiana).
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When infestations of scale insects in orchards are fought with DDT and dieldrin, chalcid and braconid wasps that parasitize scales are destroyed, and population outbreaks of scale result. 26 Another problem with synthetic chemical controls is that some can take a very long time to break down, remaining toxic for many years.
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Many guests were plodding along with the ants, mostly staphylinids of which we secured five species, a brown histerid beetle, a tiny chalcid, and several Phorid flies, one of which was winged.
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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Temperature treatment of Douglas Fir seeds to control the seed chalcid Megastigmus spermotrophus Wachtl
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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