Examples of ovipositor

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The female rocked sideways as she drilled with her ovipositor into the tissue below.
This involves insertion of the ovipositor into a potential host and this can be expected to take some time.
During 'calling' the female extends fully her telescopic ovipositor and gyrates its tip.
When not in use, the ovipositor remained concealed within the metasomal apex.
The ovipositor consisted of a sheath and two stylets.
The ovipositor complex, consisting of the stylets and the sheath, tapered towards the tip.
This appendage probably represents the still constricted portion of the egg after it passed through the ovipositor.
The female moves the ovipositor in and out in various directions through thefleshof the apple with the greatest ease.
It withdrew the ovipositor after 30-60 s and proceeded to locate another site, very often on the same leaf.
When the female withdraws the ovipositor from the host egg, the egg keeps its shape.
The abdomen of the female was held straight out, with the ovipositor slightly raised.
In mating, the male mounts the female and curves his abdomen round one side of the ovipositor, usually the left side.
It has been suggested that syrphids detect sugars using either the labellum or tarsal receptors and then confirm their presence using sensilla on the ovipositor.
Hair-like sensilla occurred almost evenly distributed throughout the terminal areas of the ovipositor complex and the abdomen.
When the larva has been stung the female may withdraw her ovipositor, or wait with it in the cocoon.
The female jabs her ovipositor into the cocoon, locating and stinging the larva.
The distal end of the ovipositor gradually contacted with the surface of the fig near the selected place.
These are mainly generalist parasitoids with short ovipositors and attack host larvae and pupae in exposed locations.

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