Fig wasps use a unique tool to find the best place to lay eggs - a tube, called an ovipositor, hardened with zinc. Biologists are amazed at the discovery. Female insects spend a lot of time and effort ...

A new tissue-transport device which was inspired by the egg-laying organs of parasitic wasps could greatly advance the field of minimally invasive surgery (MIS), according to a new study in Frontiers ...

Female wasps have a long, needle-like organ called an ovipositor, used for piercing plant tissues or the hard exoskeletons of insects, and to lay her eggs. In 2015, Niclas Fritzén and Ilari Sääksjärvi ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. For female fig wasps, the best place to lay eggs is in the developing fruit of the fig plant. And ...

You might not know this, but most figs have dead wasps in them at some point. That’s right. Wasps. And if that surprises you, then hold onto your hat: Scientists have found out how another species of ...

Clistopyga isayae, like other membrs of its genus, has a wild looking ovipositor, an adapted stinger through which it lays eggs. Palacio What links all of the newly described species is the trademark ...

A 115-million-year-old fossilized wasp from northeast Brazil presents a baffling puzzle to researchers. The wasp's ovipositor, the organ through which it lays its eggs, looks a lot like those of ...