Rider - an insect that is different from other members of their class place to lay eggs.When the time comes for reproduction, the female looks for prey.Will take suitable larva, she plunges into the body of the victim's ovipositor and lays eggs immediately.One attempt is not enough - and it has to attack several times, keeping open a dangerous battle that clumsy victim usually loses Hustler opponent.
insect rider can hit and openly living larvae, and leading a hidden life, for example, wood or stems.In such cases, the female ovipositor like a drill, perforate obstacle.Some riders do not lay their eggs in the body of the victim, and on its surface.Was born larva firmly restraining gnaws through the outer shell of the victim and feeds its juices.
Rider - an insect with a thin body with an elongated abdomen, long needlelike ovipositor at the end.The thickness of the ovipositor is comparable with horsehair.Inside it has three threadlike villi, which moves in the perturbation of the egg.A distinctive feature is the long tendrils, which probes the surface and detects the slightest vibration of the rider (insect).Photo shows it well.
interesting behaves Dinocampus coccinellae (rider-insect with a size of about 4 mm, belongs to the family Braconidae), parasitizing on the seven-spotted ladybug.Deferred egg begins to develop in the body of the victim.Larvae from eggs after a few days.She begins to eat the fat and connective tissue, without affecting the internal organs of ladybugs, which did not seem to notice the change.This continues for about 25 days.
When it is time to leave the body of the carrier, the larva gnaws rider nerves to the extremities ladybugs, so she could not escape.Getting out of the body, the larva is located between the legs of its "canned", ieunder her body, she weaves a cocoon in which to develop further.Amazingly, ladybug alive all this time.Dolly grows about a week, and then leaves the cocoon.University of Montreal researchers have proved that in every fourth case, the carrier was still alive, more than that, after the incident, he comes back to normal life.
now known about 40 thousand kinds of riders.Although numerous people rarely encounter them.This is due to the fact that the habitats of insects selected unfrequented, calm.They vary in size (from a few millimeters to 5 cm), at the place of residence, in color and behavior.Victims have also different.They can be treschalki asparagus, bugs, boll weevil, codling moth and many others.But no matter how she behaved and wherever he lived rider insect always provide their offspring with food.Given that the vast majority of the victims - pests of agricultural crops, ruining them, riders have doubtless help the man, preventing their distribution.It is such an unusual method of reproduction is based biological method to control many pests.
