Ovipositor: alternatives and connections

A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually fo…

Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnaen order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, cent…

A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.

To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.).

A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals,…

any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injuriou…

any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injuriou…

silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs

An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctori…

A place where eggs are deposited (as by sea birds) or kept; a nest of eggs.

One of a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvae feed parasitically upon living insects. See Ichneumon, 2.

An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspap…

To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows.

A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodie…

A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit.

An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenopt…

any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed

A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in…