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    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...
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    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...
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    typically have a special ovipositor for inserting eggs into hosts or places that are otherwise inaccessible. This ovipositor is often modified into a...
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    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...
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    with Tettigonia cantans, whose wings are a centimeter shorter than the ovipositor, or Tettigonia caudata, whose hind femurs bear conspicuous black spines...
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    satisfactorily settled herself, lying upon her right side she extended her ovipositor and crawling slightly forward she punctured the ootheca in the fifth egg...
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    having the longest ovipositors of any insects. They are idiobiont endoparasitoids of the larvae of wood-boring horntail wasps. The ovipositor can be mistaken...
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    at the end of the adult's abdomen which is present in both sexes. The ovipositor in females is typically longer and also projects posteriorly, but it is...
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    The second, longer and lower projection in females only is the ovipositor. The ovipositor has saw-like teeth, with which she uses to drill a hole, and then...
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    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...
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