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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...
satisfactorily settled herself, lying upon her right side she extended her ovipositor and crawling slightly forward she punctured the ootheca in the fifth egg...
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...
metallic exoskeleton; the stinger is reduced in size and used as an ovipositor. Chrysidids differ from other aculeate wasps (stinging Hymenoptera) in...
having the longest ovipositors of any insects. They are idiobiont endoparasitoids of the larvae of wood-boring horntail wasps. The ovipositor can be mistaken...
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...
in dead deciduous trees. Female M. atrata burrow into wood with their ovipositor while secreting a substance that breaks down the wood. Megarhyssa atrata...
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...
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...
with Tettigonia cantans, whose wings are a centimeter shorter than the ovipositor, or Tettigonia caudata, whose hind femurs bear conspicuous black spines...
and the order Mantodea (mantises). All modern Dictyoptera have short ovipositors and typically lay oothecae. The oldest fossils of Dictyoptera from the...
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...
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...
Ophion) with relatively short ovipositors use the ovipositor in defense. Males do not possess stingers or ovipositors in either lineage. Head (Ichneumon...
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...
(Chlorion aerarium). Like other types of wasps, males do not have an ovipositor, and therefore cannot sting. It is ranged from northern Mexico to southern...
In this respect the ovipositor differs from most other katydids, that tend to have straight, sometimes very long, ovipositors. The best-known pest species...
ancestral apocritan, allowing more maneuverability of the female's ovipositor. The ovipositor either extends freely or is retracted, and may be developed into...
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...
In some females, the sclerites are rolled into a flexible, telescopic ovipositor. Flies are capable of great manoeuvrability during flight due to the presence...
modification of the ovipositor into a stinger. However, many members of the group cannot sting, either retaining the ovipositor, or having lost it altogether...
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...
million years ago. Those early ancestors, however, lacked the internal ovipositors of modern roaches. Cockroaches are somewhat generalized insects lacking...
families of the Terebrantia all possess the eponymous saw-like (see terebra) ovipositor on the anteapical abdominal segment, lay eggs singly within plant tissue...
have either sickle-shaped ovipositors which typically lay eggs in dead or living plant matter, or uniform long ovipositors which lay eggs in grass stems...
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