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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Aphidoidea » Aphids (Aphididae) » Parasitized / Mummies
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An aphid but what species?
Copyright © 2017 S1911

An aphid but what species?
San Jose, California, USA
February 26, 2017
Found in the morning on the underside of a blade of grass.
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Contributed by S1911 on 28 February, 2017 - 12:44am
Last updated 9 October, 2020 - 4:08pm

Moved
Moved from Aphids.
… Natalie Hernandez, 9 October, 2020 - 4:08pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 14 April, 2017 - 6:02pm login or register to post comments

Try to rear the parasitoid
If you carefully cut away a piece of grass to which the mummy is attached, then you can put it into a gelatin capsule or glass vial stoppered with cotton. If there is a viable parasitoid in the mummy. it should emerge within a week or two.
… Bob Zuparko, 28 February, 2017 - 10:09am login or register to post comments

Aphid mummy…
See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 28 February, 2017 - 12:56am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
That's fantastic! I'll have to collect one to see what kind of wasp next time I find one.
… S1911, 28 February, 2017 - 1:12am login or register to post comments

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