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Parasites and predators are quite similar, however, an animal is called a parasite if it only eats part of another animal and its victim continues to live. Mosquitos are micropredators.

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A parasite feeds off a host without meaning to kill it while a predator feeds off a prey which it kills intentionally.

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The main difference between a parasite and predator is....

A parasite is an organism which depends upon its host for food, shelter and reproduction.

Whereas the predator kills its prey and eats it. It doesn't depend for shelter or reproduction except for food.

Predator and parasite are similar in their feeding habits. Both of them depend upon others for their food. Infact we the humans are also called predators which is not accepted by many scientists.
Parasites are smaller than host and don't kill host eg. mosquito on man .

Predators are larger than prey and kill it eg lion and deer .

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