Henry Noel Humphreys, Once a Week, Series 1, Volume VI… (1861-1862)
“ These parasitic flies deposit their eggs on the bodies of caterpillars, piercing the soft skin with a sharp ovipositing instrument with which they are furnished. The tribe of true Ichneumon flies have been popularly termed by French entomologists mouches vibrantes, on account of the continual and rapid vibration of their antennae, and also mouches triples, from the three hair-like appendages or triple tail with which they are furnished. and which is, in fact, the lancing instrument by means of which the skin of caterpillars and the shells of the eggs of certain insects are pierced. ”
