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The 16 pages that link to Ovipositor, each with the reason it gives.

• OvipositionBroader topic: In many insects, this structure guides eggs into soil, plants, hosts, or other sites.

• HymenopteraRelated: In many hymenopterans, this egg-laying structure became a sting or a tool for reaching hosts.

• OrthopteraRelated: Female katydids and crickets often use it to deposit eggs in soil or plant tissue.

• StingNarrower topic: Many insect stings evolved from this egg-laying structure.

• StyletCompared with: Some ovipositors pierce tissue, but their primary function is egg placement, not feeding.

• Fig waspRelated: Female fig wasps use it to lay eggs in fig flowers.

• CerciCompared with: An ovipositor is reproductive equipment, unlike the primarily sensory cerci.

• Parasitoid waspRelated: Female parasitoid wasps use it to place eggs on or inside hosts.

• CalliphoridaeRelated: Female blow flies use it to place eggs on suitable breeding material.

• Carpenter beeRelated: A carpenter bee lays eggs in prepared wood chambers; its mandibles, not its ovipositor, excavate the tunnel.

• CecidomyiidaeRelated: Female gall midges use this egg-laying organ to place eggs near suitable plant tissue.

• CurculionidaeRelated: Some weevils use it to insert eggs into seeds or plant tissues.

• SceliphriniRelated: Female wasps use this structure to lay eggs in nests provisioned for their offspring.

• SnakeflyRelated: Female snakeflies use a long ovipositor to lay eggs in crevices or bark.

• Southern hawkerRelated: The female uses this structure to insert eggs into plant material near water.

• TetrigidaeRelated: Its form and use help distinguish reproductive anatomy across grasshopper families.