Editing Parasitoid (section)

==Etymology==

The term "parasitoid" was coined in 1913 by the [[Swedish-speaking population of Finland|Swedo-Finnish]] writer [[Odo Reuter]],<ref>{{cite book |author=Reuter, Odo M. |author-link=Odo Reuter |year=1913 |title=Lebensgewohnheiten und Instinkte der Insekten |trans-title=Habits and instincts of the insects up to the awakening of social instincts |publisher=R. Friedländer und Sohn |language=de}}</ref> and adopted in English by his reviewer,<ref name="Wheeler 1914">{{cite journal | last=Wheeler | first=William Morton | title=Scientific Books {{!}} Lebensgewohnheiten und Instinkte der Insekten bis zum Erwachen der sozialen Instinkte | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=39 | issue=993 | date=9 January 1914 | doi=10.1126/science.39.993.69 | pages=69–71}}</ref> the entomologist [[William Morton Wheeler]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Wheeler, William Morton |author-link=William Morton Wheeler |title=Social life among the insects: being a series of lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in March 1922 |publisher=Harcourt, Brace |year=1923 |url=https://archive.org/details/sociallifeamongi00whee}} Previously published in ''Scientific Monthly'', June 1922 to February 1923.</ref> Reuter used it to describe the strategy where the parasite develops in or on the body of a single host individual, eventually killing that host, while the adult is free-living. Since that time, the concept has been generalised and widely applied.<ref name=Godfray1994>{{cite book |last=Godfray |first=H. C. J. |title=Parasitoids: Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology |url=https://archive.org/details/parasitoidsbehav0000godf |url-access=registration |date=1994 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-00047-3}}</ref>