chalcid fly

Questions about chalcid fly

What does chalcid fly mean?

chalcid fly means "any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects".

What is another word for chalcid fly?

Close synonyms include chalcidfly, chalcid, chalcid wasp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chalcid fly a common word?

chalcid fly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.