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===Wasps, ants, and bees=== Wasps, ants, and bees (order [[Hymenoptera]]) are not necessarily necrophagous. While some feed on the body, some are also predatory, and eat the insects feeding on the body. Thus meaning they are parasitoids ([[Parasitoid wasp]]). These Hymenoptera lay their eggs within the eggs or pupae of other insects; essentially causing the death of host insects.<ref name="Haglund_2002"/> Wasps can also be of association to the family [[Pteromalidae]]. The latter can lay single or multiple eggs. They oviposit in pupae of muscoid flies (blow flies). Subsequently, to the wasp eggs hatching, larvae will feed on the fly developing within the puparium; leading to its death.<ref name="Haglund_2002"/> [[Bee]]s and [[wasp]]s have been seen feeding on the body during the early stages.{{Citation needed|date=February 2013}} This may cause problems for murder cases in which larval flies are used to estimate the post mortem interval since eggs and larvae on the body may have been consumed prior to the arrival on scene of investigators.
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