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mobile and may have strong mandibles or other structures to compete with other parasitoid larvae. The following instars are generally more grub-like. Parasitoid larvae have incomplete digestive systems with no rear opening. This prevents the hosts from being contaminated by their wastes. The larva feeds on the host's tissues until ready to pupate; by then, the host is generally either dead or almost so. A meconium, or the accumulated wastes from the larva, is cast out as the larva transitions to a prepupa.

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