1.   Scientists have even been able to distinguish tiny parasitic insects, mites, clinging to the legs of the bigger ones.

2.   ...tiny parasitic insects.

3.   Parasitic insects carrying dangerous diseases thrive in the wake of deforestation, resulting in increased incidence of potentially-fatal illnesses such as malaria and river blindness.

4.   Inexorably, tiny parasitic insects from Asia called woolly adelgids are punching deeply and destructively into the hemlock forests of the Eastern United States.

5.   The appearance of a housing development on former oak savanna in California seems unconnected to the destruction of native hemlocks by a parasitic Asian insect called the woolly adelgid.

6.   Woodworm is a parasitic insect that eats into furniture.

7.   That is because the mealy bug, a parasitic insect, has destroyed fields of crops and fruits.