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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Braconids and Ichneumons (Ichneumonoidea) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Aphidiinae
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Headless bug
Copyright © 2009 linty

Headless bug
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
June 19, 2009
Size: Less than 1cm
Never seen a bug like this before. It looks like it's missing it's head!
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Contributed by linty on 24 June, 2009 - 7:55am
Last updated 14 October, 2009 - 12:40pm

Moved
Moved from Aphids.
… Charley Eiseman, 14 October, 2009 - 12:40pm login or register to post comments

Thank you both for the ID and
Thank you both for the ID and the explanation. I would have never recognized this as an aphid!
… linty, 29 June, 2009 - 2:39pm login or register to post comments

 
you're welcom
I've moved this to the aphid section for now. I'm not sure it won't end up in frass eventually, but I'll let an aphid expert decide that.
… Lynette Schimming, 29 June, 2009 - 6:59pm login or register to post comments

aphid mummy
compare with
… Lynette Schimming, 24 June, 2009 - 8:57am login or register to post comments

 
Just to explain...
This aphid's head isn't missing, but it is very, very dead. A braconid wasp (subfamily Aphidiinae) laid an egg inside it and the wasp larva "mummified" it by feeding inside. The larva is now probably pupating, and will eventually cut a neat circular lid in the aphid's back and emerge as an adult.
… Charley Eiseman, 24 June, 2009 - 11:18am login or register to post comments

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