"Viruses aren't alive; they are well-organized molecular parasites."
"Addiction is like a parasite in that it sort of takes over the host bit by bit until the host is the addiction."
"The trouble with being a parasite like that is that ultimately you will kill your host."
"Ants can actually become zombies; a typical zombie apocalypse scenario we see in movies."
"The ant effectively becomes one with the fungus, like a real puppeteer fungus pulls the strings."
"From tongue-biting to gene-stealing, parasites have evolved an incredible variety of methods for mooching off others."
"The sea lamprey: a master of parasitic survival."
"This creepy web then doubles up as a comfortable cocoon for the wasp babies to live in until they're ready to emerge, starting this vicious cycle all over again."
"In this state, you are in complete control. You are a parasite."
"And they're totally being taken over by their parasites."
"The capacity of the parasite to mimic other enemies is quite the daunting thing to witness."
"The fact that some parasites take over the brains of their prey and change their behavior."
"The candiru fish has a reputation for allegedly entering people's urinary tracts and latching itself to the inside using its sharp barbs."
"Lying enables parasitism which produces a corruption poverty spiral."
"The parasite is manipulating the body through expression of hormones."
"Parasitism is a pretty clever strategy. They just sort of sneak in, they set up camp inside of a body, and then they can devour it from the inside out."
"There's a difference between a partner and a parasite."
"Jewel wasp: uses cockroaches as living incubators for its larvae, a nightmare for roach haters."
"In his final form you can see the extent of Sadler's total merger with the parasite."
"These spirits are dangerous only when they parasitize someone."
"A parasite doesn't live in balance with you. A parasite takes from you. This is why we call a person in our life who is just a taker a parasite."
"Narcissists are mimic parasites, feeding off their successive hosts in a shared fantasy."
"Zombies are not made up. The animal kingdom has its zombies. For instance, there's a type of fungus that takes over ants, spreading specific chemicals in their brains."
"And Kageromuru is no different; he is this gross parasite that lives inside of his brother as a total sadist."
"Mites lay their eggs inside the larvae of the bees...makes it very sickly and basically decimates the entire Hive."
"A man who seeks power over others is one of the worst, most evil forms of parasitism."
"Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites, they cannot reproduce without a host cell."
"Once the parasite starts to interact with the red cell stage it begins to release things into the bloodstream during its division cycles which the immune system picks up on."
"Viruses are considered obligatory intracellular parasites, so they are obligated to be parasites inside of another cell. So just means they require a living host cell to multiply. They can't replicate on their own."
"Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites; they need a host in order to grow, multiply, and infect."
"Venom is the dictionary definition of a parasite."
"There's a parasite that enters a fish's mouth, eats the tongue, and replaces itself as the fish."
"...an individual's intrinsic behaviors and instincts are recalibrated to prioritize the parasite's survival and propagation."
"I saw it and I swear it gave me nightmares there is a fungus this is what it's based off of there's a fungus that infects ants and it actually goes into their brain they are now brain dead but the fungus is directing what they do."
"She grows off of people's pain and destruction."
"It's like an energy she feeds off of."
"Gabriel feeds off things, he feeds off energy, whether that be electricity and also human life as we know, unfortunately, Madison's womb he is drinking from."
"Cancer was discovered when she had her surgery... The point is that tumors... are parasitic almost... they take your energy."
"The Emerald Wasp, if you don't know, an Emerald Wasp is what it does—it paralyzes a cockroach."
"Toxoplasmosis is a parasite that can turn a normally risk-averse mouse into a bold, cat-seeking rodent."
"A parasite is a creature that lives on or in another organism, parasites live at the expense of their hosts and often cause disease in these hosts."
"The new species of wasp has been described as a parasite of a parasite."
"Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites; they engage host functions at every step in the reproduction cycle."
"It's an evolutionary host jump... for millennia honeybees have existed and now within 50 years we have a new parasite on them."
"A good parasite is one that doesn't outright kill the host... parasites have evolved over the years to be able to feed off of the organism, but not outright kill the organism."
"Viruses of course are obligate intracellular parasites."
"Cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests, and they never meet their parents."
"Parasitism can be defined as an instance where an organism lives on or inside another, exploiting it for its own benefit and to the detriment of the host."
"The relationship between Tenax troglovarius and Trystophallus typhloba illustrates how the targeting of energetically costly areas of an animal's body, such as the reproductive organs, can be both beneficial for a parasite and costly for the host."
"Parasitism is an extremely prevalent part of biological interaction, both on Isla and on Earth."