Because the wraith "drain" their victims of their life-force rather than "eating" them in the usual sense, there is no overt damage left behind except for superficial wounds received from the wraith's claws and the organ used for the "feeding" process. Once the harvest is complete the Wraith will return to hibernation to allow the planets' populations to regrow before another culling. These humans will then be consumed by the hive later on. Hibernating for (human) generations at a time, they will eventually awaken and cull various planets throughout the galaxy by attacking them with Dart Fighters that harvest humans. The Wraith view themselves as vastly superior to humans and treat them similarly to how a human might treat cattle or livestock. They are exceptionally skilled martial artists. Typically, Wraith have pale teal or white, waxy-looking skin typically long, white hair translucent yellow pointed teeth, and are very aggressive.
This is due to having been evolved from insects into their current form after exchanging DNA with humans while feeding on them. The Wraith are sentient, intelligent creatures who are humanoid in form, but insect-like in other aspects such as behaviour and being hive-based. Wraith "Keeper" hovering over a consumed human in " Rising" They have likely evolved from a combination of human and insectoid genetic recombination, which suggests the reason for why their abilities are as such. Wraith "feed" by "sucking" the life-force from a human being and are ageless. They have traits very similar to those of vampires - in fact one may suppose that this is where the creators' influence came from, as many of Stargate SG-1's encounters have been based on historic mythology (however these have been explained as manifesting in Earth history the Wraith do not correlate in this manner). The Wraith are depicted as a hive-based species that grew to their level of power through technological knowledge comparable but inferior to the Ancients (their source of technological knowledge is unknown, however their writing is based on Ancient language) coupled with sheer mass of numbers. Although still immensely powerful in number, various other threats including the Pegasus based-Replicators ( Asurans) have also arisen which have taken attention away from the war against the Wraith. In Season 1, it was the prime objective of the characters to find a way to save themselves from a siege by the Wraith, similar to how the characters of Stargate SG-1 ( Atlantis' sister-show) were originally focused solely on protecting Earth from attack by the Goa'uld. In the early seasons of the show they dominated the Pegasus Galaxy, the show's setting, and were an almost unstoppable and fatal threat. In the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis, the Wraith are the original antagonistic alien species, first introduced in the pilot episode " Rising".
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