. Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. Figure 18. As females guard their eggs, they lunge toward enemies—particularly egg para-sites. £>/HeH!/j/a sp. (Embiidae). Northern Zambia. ROSS: EMBIA, BIOSYSTEMATICS OF THE ORDER EMBIIDINA, PART 2 15 predators. However, such protection, like most de-fenses in nature, is imperfect. For example, I foundwithin a mass containing 51 eggs, 12 fully developedscelionid wasps clearly visible through transparentegg shells. Additional information on maternal protection ofeggs and young is provided by Edgerly (1987a, b;1988, 1994) in her deta
. Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. Figure 18. As females guard their eggs, they lunge toward enemies—particularly egg para-sites. £>/HeH!/j/a sp. (Embiidae). Northern Zambia. ROSS: EMBIA, BIOSYSTEMATICS OF THE ORDER EMBIIDINA, PART 2 15 predators. However, such protection, like most de-fenses in nature, is imperfect. For example, I foundwithin a mass containing 51 eggs, 12 fully developedscelionid wasps clearly visible through transparentegg shells. Additional information on maternal protection ofeggs and young is provided by Edgerly (1987a, b;1988, 1994) in her detailed study of plesiomorphicAntipaluria iiiichi (Saussure) (Clothodidae) i ?>. w Figure 19. Most embiids, such as Antipaluria Enderlein(Clothodidae). reduce oviposition of wasp egg parasitesby packing a paste of pulverized material around their
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