User blog comment:LucidPigeons/Category Cleanup/@comment-2059440-20160301041147/@comment-26884760-20160309132939

a parisitoid is just a parasite, my Queen.. in the end it is a technical thing and not that necessary, most parasites in fiction are actually parasitoids but people in general call them "parasites" regardless.. I dare say only scientists and doctors really differ between "parasite" and "parasitoid".

It's like a planet and a planetoid, how many people really use the term planetoid? they tend to just call them planets.. even if they technically aren't.