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Australian Museum Scorpion Wasps Expedition

Specimens Australian Museum Entomology Collection

The Ichneumonidae are a parasitoid wasp family within the order Hymenoptera. Unlike other parasites, parasitoids kill their hosts. Ichneumonids have ovipositors instead of stingers, and they are solitary wasps. They use their ovipositors to lay eggs on or in the body of their prey, and the eggs hatch into carnivorous larvae that eat and kill the host.

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