Katydid chewing hole in a branch and inserting eggs into the hole with its ovipositor. The ovipositor is an organ used by insects for laying of eggs. It consists of a maximum of three pairs of appendages formed to transmit the egg,to prepare a place for it,and place it properly. Tettigoniids have either sickle-shaped ovipositors which typically lay eggs in dead or living plant matter,or uniform elongate ovipositors which lay eggs in grass stems. Photographed in the Ecuadorian Amazon | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Read, Dr. Morley |
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