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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Microgastrinae » Cotesia
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Cluster of little cocoons? - Cotesia
Copyright © 2009 Beatriz Moisset

Cluster of little cocoons? - Cotesia
Pennypack Restoration Trust, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
May 14, 2009
Size: + - 15mm
On Tradescantia leaf. I assume that these are cocoons, but I have no idea of what. It rained hard the night before and they seem to be wet.
Update: According to a National Geographic video some parasitic wasps induce the dying caterpillar host to spin a wrapping around the wasps cocoons instead of building its own cocoon. Another gruesome example of parasitic mind control. This explains the webbing around the little cocoons.
Southeastern PA

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Cluster of little cocoons? - Cotesia Cocoons. Lucky me! - Cotesia Cocoons. Lucky me! - Cotesia
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Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 15 May, 2009 - 6:38pm
Last updated 31 December, 2018 - 4:26pm

Moved
Moved from Braconid Wasps.
… Beatriz Moisset, 26 August, 2009 - 12:21pm login or register to post comments

Yes.
Cocoons of a braconid wasp species I suspect.
… Eric R. Eaton, 15 May, 2009 - 7:46pm login or register to post comments

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