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After mating, the female wasp seeks out a tarantula, either free-ranging or in its burrow. After grappling with the tarantula, the wasp delivers a powerful sting that paralyzes the tarantula, but keeps it alive. [2] This allows the wasp to lay an egg that adheres to the spider's abdomen. One egg is provisioned per tarantula.
Winged female and wingless male. Blastophaga psenes is a wasp species in the genus Blastophaga. It pollinates the common fig Ficus carica and the closely related Ficus palmata. [3] These wasps breed in figs without the need for a colony or nest, and the adults live for only a few days or weeks. [4]
However, the majority of wasp species are solitary, with each adult female living and breeding independently. 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 into a sting used for defense or prey capture. Wasps play many ecological roles.
Female X. vesparum are markedly different from their male counterparts. They display a high degree of neoteny, and are permanent endoparasites of their hosts.They reside in the wasp's body cavity and never develop mouthparts, legs, eyes or wings, and their only form of genitalia is the ventral opening where males can inseminate them, as well as being the point of larval escape. [1]
The body of a female is c. 2 inches (50 mm) long, with an ovipositor c. 4 inches (100 mm) long. Females of the parasitoid wasp Neoneurus vesculus ovipositing in workers of the ant Formica cunicularia. Parasitized white cabbage larvae showing wasp larvae exiting its body, spinning cocoons. Playback at double speed.
Ceratosolen solmsi is a species of fig wasps in the family Agaonidae.It has Ficus hispida as its host, where it is parasitized by the other fig wasp Apocrypta bakeri.Wasp larvae develop and hatch into mature wasps entirely within the body of the fig. Female wasps that develop in the center rather than the periphery of the fig have more mating opportunities, produce more offspring, and produce ...
As in other Nasonia wasps, N. vitripennis is haplodiploid, having haploid males and diploid females, and measures from 2–3 mm in length, with larger and darker-colored females than males. These wasps, like most other insects, show much sexual dimorphism, and females tend to be less easy to distinguish by species than males.
Biorhiza pallida has a complex life cycle involving an agamic female that reproduces by parthenogenesis without a male during the summer, and a winter/spring generation of adults where individuals are either male or female. These mate and produce fertilised eggs. The wingless agamic wasp is between 4.8 and 6.3 millimetres (0.19 and 0.25 in) long.