EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Although the term ectoparasites can broadly include temporarily blood-sucking arthropods such as mosquitoes, this term is generally used more narrowly to refer to pathogens such as ticks, fleas, lice, parasitic flies and mites that attach or burrow into the skin and remain there for relatively long periods of time2.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ectoparasites are parasites that live on the external surface of hosts, for example fleas and lice of various terrestrial vertebrates, and Monogenea and Copepoda of freshwater and marine fishes.

Detailed explanation-3: -An ectoparasite is a parasite that lives externally on another animal, but does not kill it. Common examples of ectoparasites include fleas, head lice and bed bugs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Endoparasites are parasites that live within the body of its host. Ectoparasites live outside the body of the host. A female mosquito would be an ectoparasite because it lives off of blood by sucking it up from the outside.