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

also Parasite and Parasitoid are very different entities and need to be separated, it is the exception to not using obscure words as a parasite feeds on a host and infects them but keeps them alive.. a Parisitoid is fatal to the host and infinitely more dangerous.

I want Parasite and Parasitoid to remain separate entities, it is important - the term is not widely known but it is a distinction that needs to be made.