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Ovipositor (noun): An organ used by some female insects and other animals to lay eggs. It may be a tube or a long needle-like organ
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- A tubular protruding organ for laying eggs.
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On the females the ovipositor barely protrudes.
The ovipositor is rather long and triangular.
It is large wasp with a powerful ovipositor in females.
The ovipositor is often modified into a stinger.
Many females have an ovipositor for placement of eggs.
The ovipositor of the female has sclerotized cerci.
A secondary function of the epigyne is as an ovipositor.
The ovipositor in females is reduced or absent.
Males are distinguished from females by the absence of an ovipositor.
The ovipositor can be mistaken for a large stinger.
Females show a very long ovipositor.
The ovipositor is short and thin.
The queen is able to detach from the ovipositor.
The ovipositor is an organ used by insects for laying eggs.
In either case it stings them with the ovipositor.
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The ovipositor is straight and slender and bears no teeth.
Males can be recognized by the absence of the ovipositor.
Females have a straight ovipositor which exceeds body length.
The stinger of bees and wasps is a modified ovipositor.
The ovipositor is retractable and not visible when retracted.
In this case the sting has evolved into an ovipositor.
The ovipositor is also longer than usual among katydids.
The female has a long and slightly upcurved ovipositor.
In females the ovipositor becomes visible at the third instar.
Females have a long ovipositor.
Ovipositor valves are used to inject eggs into the soil.
Species without an ovipositor lay their eggs on plant surfaces.
Even more surprising is the chemical composition of this ovipositor.
The ovipositor is about long and has the shape of a sickle.
Females also have a long ovipositor at the tip of the abdomen.
The female of this species has an extremely long telescopic ovipositor.
A straight and short ovipositor is visible on the end of the gaster.
Females can be distinguished from males by the presence of a long ovipositor.
On the females the ovipositor is half the length of the metasoma.
It was lifted just enough that she could see its ovipositor.
The basic structure of the ovipositor is therefore similar in all parasitoids.
The queen bee also lays eggs using the ovipositor.
The ovipositor of the female extends beyond the tip of the wings.
Female with ovipositor.
The ovipositor is an organ used by some animals for the laying of eggs.
Worker bees sting with a modified ovipositor on the end of the abdomen.
The female lays her eggs in the soil with her ovipositor.
This is a ovipositor.
The tip of the ovipositor is also a good indicator of the ecology of its owner.
Researchers and scientists have been inspired by the ovipositor of the female wood wasp.
The wasp inserts the ovipositor into the cavity which contains the host larva.
The eggs are deposited in cavities created by the female using its sharp ovipositor.
Females with an undifferentiated ovipositor release eggs randomly and independently from the substrate.
Females will then lay their eggs by injecting their ovipositor into soil.
India has no fruit fly with ovipositor long enough to lay eggs inside papayas.
