| For him, the fiend that shook his faith was the ichneumon wasp, which lays its eggs inside the larvae of the horntail wasp. |
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| The Persians did not worship wood and stone with the Greeks, nor the ibis and ichneumon with the Egyptians. |
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| They also are in competition for food with the swamp ichneumon, which preys on crabs. |
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| There, the infant ichneumon secretes a paralyzing agent while it proceeds to eat the living horntail from the inside out. |
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| There are also jackals, wolves, the ichneumon and, possibly, a polecat. |
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| There are two carnivorous mammals: the Caffre cat, a small feline predator, and the ichneumon, or Egyptian mongoose. |
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| The ichneumon larva feeds on the fats and body fluids of the host until fully grown, then usually spins a silken cocoon. |
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| The IPM means that we use the natural enemies of pests, such as ichneumon wasps or ladybirds, to fight plagues. |
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| Such parasites include ichneumon, chalcid, pteromalid, figitid, ensign wasp, and bethylid. |
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| Government employees' unions living parasitically on Detroit have been less aware than ichneumon larvae. |
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| Plagues such as white fly, miner fly, red spider mite, plant lice, and caterpillars are among others combatted with certain types of ichneumon wasps, predatory mites or gallflies. |
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| So whose side is the designer on? The ichneumon wasp paralyses its prey without killing it and lays its larva inside this convenient source of fresh meat, to eat it slowly alive. |
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| A new subfamily of ichneumon wasps from the Upper Cretaceous of the Russian Far East. |
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| Ada's unique Lorelei Underwing had died, paralyzed by some ichneumon that had not been deceived by those clever prominences and fungoid smudges. |
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| The fact is, however, that an ichneumon is just one kind of mongoose, the Egyptian mongoose, and while it is found throughout much of Africa, it is entirely absent from India. |
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