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These later stages, comprising the greater part of the larval history, are adapted for an inquiline or a parasitic life, where shelter is assured and food abundant, while the short-lived, active condition enables the newly-hatched insect to make its way to the spot favourable for its future development, clinging, for example, in the case of an oil-beetle’s larva, to the hairs of a bee as she flies towards her nest.

Inquiline, in′kwi-lin, adj. living in the abode of another, as a pea-crab in an oyster-shell.—n. an animal so living.—adj.

"Inquiline" sounds a pompous word for lodgers, but it has not yet been sentimentalized like "pilgrim"; it is not an Americanism like "transients," and it does give to me the sense of a fleeting stay; whereas lodgers sound dreadfully permanent since they have been given votes.

Inquiline: living as guests in the homes of others; as in galls.

Inquiline: a species living in a gall or other structure prepared by a different species, not as a parasite but as, a guest.