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Wasp/Caterpillar mystery
Copyright © 2007 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

Wasp/Caterpillar mystery
Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
June 20, 2007
we had put the pots back together-well my hubby forgot about the wasps-and took the pots apart again and we found this....

anyone have any idea what happened here...the large larvae and gone!

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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 21 June, 2007 - 1:28pm
Last updated 1 September, 2007 - 6:52pm

same with me
See my post

I tried to raise the larvae (which is the fat white worm) but I ran out of caterpillars to feed him with).
… Ray Simpson, 21 June, 2007 - 3:02pm login or register to post comments

 
That's interesting-it even lo
That's interesting-it even looks like the same kind of caterpillars.
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 22 June, 2007 - 11:38am login or register to post comments

The caterpillar hosts are par
The caterpillar hosts are paralyzed from the wasps' sting, so they cannot escape. Very strange that the wasp larvae are missing but the caterpillars remained there. They couldn't have pupated and emerged as adults that quickly.

I see a few dried up larvae that could be the wasps on the top left.
… George Waldren, 21 June, 2007 - 2:55pm login or register to post comments

 
They look like the same speci
They look like the same species of caterpillars in the other post here (or do they turn that color when paralyzed?)

I guess it remain a mystery on what happened to the wasp larvae.
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 22 June, 2007 - 11:40am login or register to post comments

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