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Skipper Caterpillar with parasites

Photo by LivanEscudero
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Habitat:

wetland

Notes:

Here the caterpillar of some sort of Skipper is almost completely engulfed in the cocoons of Braconid Parasitic Wasps. The cocoons appeared vacated.

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Comments (2)
KarenL
Poor thing - that must be a very nasty way to die!

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Interaction between different species of Arthropods
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2012

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