Multiple choice

“Parasitic flies are sometime more crucial insect’s enemies than are Hymenoptera. Tachina fly has a wide variety of caterpillar hosts and normally achieve in keeping several of them under total subjugation.” This statement precisely builds association between tachina fly and caterpillars. Keeping in sight the form of mouth parts found in the order diptera, the fly-caterpillar association is build through

  1. oviposition

  2. ectoparasitism

  3. endoparasitism

  4. predation

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C Correct answer
Explanation

Keeping in sight the form of mouth parts found in the order diptera, the fly-caterpillar association is build through 'endoparasitism', where a parasite lives within its host’s body.