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Ovipositor of long-horned grasshopper (the two cerci are also visible)
The ovipositor is a tube-like organ used by some animals, especially insects, for the laying of eggs. In insects, an ovipositor consists of a maximum of three pairs of appendages. The details and morphology of the ovipositor vary, but typically its form is adapted to functions such as preparing a place for the egg, transmitting the egg, and then placing it properly. For most insects, the organ is used merely to attach the egg to some surface, but for many parasitic species (primarily in wasps and other Hymenoptera), it is a piercing organ as well.
Some ovipositors only retract partly when not in use, and the basal part that sticks out is known as the scape, or more specifically oviscape, the word scape deriving from the Latin word scāpus, meaning "stalk" or "shaft".
Look up ovipositor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The ovipositor is a tube-like organ used by some animals, especially insects, for the laying of...
body and ovipositor together can be more than 5 inches (130 mm) long in the female. Males are smaller and have no ovipositor. The ovipositor looks like...
typically have a special ovipositor for inserting eggs into hosts or places that are otherwise inaccessible. This ovipositor is often modified into a...
male, with an ovipositor used to deposit eggs. When the female is laying eggs, she "shivers" and eggs are laid through the ovipositor, positioned down...
Females typically have an ovipositor for laying eggs in or near a food source for the larvae, though in the Aculeata the ovipositor is often modified instead...
satisfactorily settled herself, lying upon her right side she extended her ovipositor and crawling slightly forward she punctured the ootheca in the fifth egg...
in dead deciduous trees. Female M. atrata burrow into wood with their ovipositor while secreting a substance that breaks down the wood. Megarhyssa atrata...
possessing an additional projection in the form of an ovipositor. The females of the species use their ovipositor to deposit their eggs into dead and dying deciduous...
female is notable for an ovipositor of 2 inches (51 mm) to 3 inches (76 mm) in length. The male is less colorful with no ovipositor. This species is native...
with Tettigonia cantans, whose wings are a centimeter shorter than the ovipositor, or Tettigonia caudata, whose hind femurs bear conspicuous black spines...
moths have only one sex organ, which is used for copulation and as an ovipositor, or egg-laying organ. About 98% of moth species have a separate organ...
having the longest ovipositors of any insects. They are idiobiont endoparasitoids of the larvae of wood-boring horntail wasps. The ovipositor can be mistaken...
and the order Mantodea (mantises). All modern Dictyoptera have short ovipositors and typically lay oothecae. The oldest fossils of Dictyoptera from the...
pierce the host's bark to allow the eggs to be inserted into the wood (the ovipositor is typically longer and also projects posteriorly, but it is not the source...
57 in) in the females, plus about 20–40 millimetres (0.79–1.57 in) of the ovipositor. These ichneumon wasps have a thin black body, several whitish spots on...
Ophion) with relatively short ovipositors use the ovipositor in defense. Males do not possess stingers or ovipositors in either lineage. Head (Ichneumon...
metallic exoskeleton; the stinger is reduced in size and used as an ovipositor. Chrysidids differ from other aculeate wasps (stinging Hymenoptera) in...
ancestral apocritan, allowing more maneuverability of the female's ovipositor. The ovipositor either extends freely or is retracted, and may be developed into...
external ovipositor, some 2 to 5 mm long, which reflects the thickness of the syconium wall of the host fig species. To stabilize the long ovipositor during...
In some females, the sclerites are rolled into a flexible, telescopic ovipositor. Flies are capable of great manoeuvrability during flight due to the presence...
and wasps. The common name comes from the saw-like appearance of the ovipositor, which the females use to cut into the plants where they lay their eggs...
have a striped appearance. Like many Tettigoniidae, females have a long ovipositor, which should not be mistaken for a stinger. As is characteristic of Tettigoniidae...
insects to wasps about an inch long. Most females have a long, sharp ovipositor at the tip of the abdomen, sometimes lacking venom glands, and almost...
presence of an ovipositor, a spike-like appendage, about 0.75 inches (19 mm) long, on the hind end of the abdomen between two cerci. This ovipositor allows the...
the other pairs. The ovipositor is straight, quite short and thick, however the male Pimpla rufipes does not have an ovipositor. These wasps are often...
lays eggs within the tissue of plants in or near water using a robust ovipositor. Artificial fishing flies that mimic damselfly nymphs are used in wet-fly...
Koinobiont parasitoid wasps like this braconid lay their eggs via an ovipositor inside their hosts, which continue to grow and moult. Phorid fly (centre...
in large numbers in the late winter when foraging bees are inactive. Ovipositor of an A. borealis Female A. borealis ovipositing eggs into the abdomen...
capsule covered in gossamer, which the female takes into her body via her ovipositor to fertilize her eggs. The female lays groups of fewer than 60 eggs at...
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