| The female excavates a conical scar in the bark with the mandibles and deposits an egg by means of the ovipositor. |
| Braconid females can use the ovipositor, the tube through which eggs are laid, to sting. |
| When she finds it, she inserts her ovipositor into its body and lays her egg. |
| Female damselflies normally use a bladelike ovipositor to place eggs inside plant tissue. |
| The female lays about 700 eggs, burying her ovipositor into the soil moist and firm. |
| Sawflies, which are phytophagous, lay their eggs in incisions in plants, cut by the sawlike blades of the ovipositor. |
