Examples of flukes include the liver fluke and the schistosomes . A worm which spends a certain time during its lifecycle living in the soil. A species in which one organism contains both sets of sex organs. The organism in which a parasite lives. A group of organisms comprising the Class Insecta of Phylum Arthropoda .
Some species have wings.
Parasitic insects include the fleas and lice. Other groups, such as flies, mosquitos and some beetles, are important vectors of parasitic disease or intermediate hosts . For example, the sheep is the normal intermediate host for the hydatid tapeworm, while humans are the intermediate host for the malarial parasite. An immature stage of an organism which bears no structural resemblence to the mature stage. For example, a maggot is the larva of a fly, a caterpillar is the larva of a moth or butterfly.