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Ichneumon wasps are important parasitoids of other invertebrates, such as larvae and pupae of beetles, moths, butterflies and other wasps. The females 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: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumonidae