Females have an organ called ovipositor where eggs are deposited. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The ovipositor, which is about four-tenths of an inch in length, is plunged obliquely and up to the hilt into the twig. From Wordnik.com. [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference
The Major has an eye for a well turned ovipositor. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodhype]
Lateral scale: one of the lateral processes of the ovipositor in. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Abdomen rufo-testaceous beneath; the ovipositor white at its apex. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Anyhow the female's tiara and ovipositor glaze were dead giveaways. From Wordnik.com. [Tar Aiym Krang]
They appear to = the rhabdites composing the ovipositor of other insects. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Episternites: the upper pair of corneous appendages forming the ovipositor in grasshoppers. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Hymenoptera furnished with a sting which is a modified ovipositor and connected with a poison sac. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Oviscapt: = ovipositor; q.v. Ovivalvule: in Ephemeroptera; is an appendage of the female reproductive organs. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
What you are seeing in the second photograph are the pair of ovipositor lobes at the tip of the abdomen not eggs. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Abdomen petiolated, the petiole as long as the abdomen; the ovipositor as long as the petiole and abdomen united. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Abdomen: the segments with slightly impressed oblique depressions, the ovipositor shorter than the abdomen, and black. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
One of the new items is a life-size plush Alien facehugger, with bendable wire legs and a long snakelike body/ovipositor. From Wordnik.com. [another missed photo op....] Reference
I have to say that picture of the bronze medal winner in skants looks like an ovipositor with the TP roll being the recently laid egg. From Wordnik.com. [Regretsy – From the Mailbag] Reference
Abdomen: the petiole as long as the thorax, narrowest at the base of the abdomen; it is rugose at the base; the ovipositor pale testaceous. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
The ovipositor of the locust is not long and sword-like. From Wordnik.com. [The Insect Folk] Reference
Segments nine and ten are modified to form the ovipositor. From Wordnik.com. [The Insect Folk] Reference
The ovipositor of female has the edges quite smooth beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference
To sum up, the ovipositor when at rest goes round the abdomen. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
Only the female grasshoppers have the long, sword-shaped ovipositor. From Wordnik.com. [The Insect Folk] Reference
When she finds it, she inserts her ovipositor into its body and lays her egg. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference
The abdomen contains the ovipositor; sometimes, as in the bees and wasps, forming a sting. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
What about a dissolving fluid which would soften the mortar under the point of the ovipositor?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
A Continental fish which lays its eggs by means of a long ovipositor inside the freshwater mussel. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
In all these insects the rudiments of the wings, legs, and even of the ovipositor of the adult exist in the young larva. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
No doubt some imperceptible cranny, some defect in the cement, allows her to insert her ovipositor, which shoots out like. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
Female lays the eggs through the ovipositor (in the last segment of a female's abdomen), which can hatch the fertilized eggs. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Then female lays the eggs through the ovipositor (in the last segment of a female's abdomen), which can hatch the fertilized eggs. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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