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Small wasp on eggs

Chalcidoidea

Photo by MartinL
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Field Notes

Description:

This tiny black wasp maybe a braconid wasp. The row of eggs are believed to be sawfly eggs and each seems to have killed by a small predator. possibly similar to this wasp.

Notes:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/chalcidoids/
Both the host and the parasitoid are in the same insect order; Hymenoptera http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8893826
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8765188

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Chalcids

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
MartinL
Thank you John La Salle for the update. They are all too complex for us hobbyists but its possible interest in the eggs was what prompted my photograph.
John La Salle
Not a braconid - definitely some Chalcidoidea. I am guessing (stress guessing) Encyrtidae - but really can't tell from the pictures and it could be from a couple of other families.

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PublishedMarch 4, 2013

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