Three species of Ichneumon flies, two of which belong to the Chalcid family, lay their eggs within the body of the larva, and emerge from the dried larva and pupa skins of the bee, often in great numbers.
Records of the introduced and immigrantchalcid flies of the Hawaiian Islands (Hymenoptera).
In some cases the pupa was being devoured by the minute larvae of a chalcid fly, and in one cell only the dried skin remained.
On the leaves of the Virginia creeper you may usually find, in early autumn, some caterpillars which have received the eggs of a small chalcid fly.
For that pupa there was to be no resurrection into the life of the bee, but as the cell was opened, out stepped a tiny chalcid into the light of day, its dapper little person shining blue-black and its minute wings of an iridescent green.
This sepulcher is sign to the chalcid fly as well.
One is likely to get hundreds of these Chalcid flies from a single caterpillar.
These are much larger than theChalcid flies and are called Ichneumon flies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chalcid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
