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Pawpaw Sphinx with braconid wasp parasites

Dolba hyloeus with Cotesia congregata

Photo by Tom15
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Field Notes

Notes:

The Pawpaw Sphinx caterpillars I found on a winterberry plant were infested with braconid wasp cocoons. The first 2 images show the larvae just emerged from inside the caterpillar and are starting to make cocoons. The last photo shows the completed cocoons.

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Comments (2)
Tom15
Nature can be cruel, but this is just one of the checks and balances. The poor caterpillar was still motionless in the same place a few days later.
Fyn Kynd
So nasty and so cool at the same time! :-) Poor caterpillar.

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New England Arthropods
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2013

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