The eclosion of a female mosquito. Mosquito larvae and pupae live underwater, but the mature pupal casing spilts on a seam at the air/water boundary, releasing the adult to the atmosphere. Laboratory culture at Rockefeller University.
A female crown-of-thorns wasp, in the relatively uncommon family Stephanidaem, oviposits into a beetle burrow. Urbana, Illinois, USA.