Question

Hyperparasite is one
A. Which kills the host
B. Which completes the life cycle in one's host
C. Which use the machinery of the host to reproduce
D. None of the above

Answer 1

Hyperparasite is the parasite, whose host is often an insect, which is also a parasite, and it is specifically a Parasitoid, and the few species of true flies and beetles are examples of hyperparasitism.

Complete answer:
Hyperparasitism was developed mainly from the primary parasitism, which evolved in the era of the Jurassic period in the family of Hymenoptera.
Entomologists came to know hyperparasitism mainly because of its relationships with various organisms to evolution and its relation to ecology, behavior, biological control, taxonomy, and mathematical models.
The most common example of hyperparasitism is that, the insects which lay eggs inside the parasitic body such as a parasitic larva or near the parasitic larva.
Where the parasites themselves again parasitize the host, which is again an insect larva.
One of the best examples for this is the small white butterfly which is the pest of the crop of the brassica family such as cabbage, where this small white butterfly larva is again parasitized by the Costeia Glomerata and Costeia Rubecula, where these again parasitized by the Lysibia Nana.
Levels of parasites beyond the secondary are known and they majorly found in the Facultative parasites.
Whereas the three levels of parasitism are mainly observed in the fungi.
So no options given in the above question are told about hyper parasitism, so the answer is none of the above.

So, the correct answer is option D.

Note: Hyperparasites are used to the population of their host, so they are used in the field of agriculture, and to some extent, they are used in the field of medicine. Hyper parasites breed more rapidly than their host and larger than the Predators.