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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Platygastroidea » Platygastridae » Telenominae
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Is this a bee? fly?
Copyright © 2006 BeeBee

Is this a bee? fly?
Georgetown, Floyd County, Indiana, USA
June 5, 2006
Size: 1/8 inch, maybe less
This insect has its eggs under a blackberry leaf by a pond. I've never seen it off of its eggs. It watches them diligently. I've even seen it run off a tiny invader. It is not skiddish with humans, however. I have photographed it several days in a row, have moved the leaf and been "in its face" so to speak and it hasn't given me any notice.

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Contributed by BeeBee on 6 June, 2006 - 11:45pm
Last updated 30 October, 2009 - 3:55pm

Moved
Moved from Scelionidae.
… Charley Eiseman, 30 October, 2009 - 3:55pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from parasitic Apocrita.
… Ken Schneider, 7 October, 2009 - 9:29pm login or register to post comments

Wasp
compare with this image. I also think the eggs are true bug eggs.
… Lynette Schimming, 7 June, 2006 - 5:18am login or register to post comments

 
Yes,
and I think the eggs can be narrowed down to pentatomid, at least.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 7 June, 2006 - 6:13am login or register to post comments

Cool... the little wasp is a
Cool... the little wasp is a parasite which has parasitized the eggs of an other insect , I'm not sure but looks like the eggs belong to a true bug or a buterfly. Never read before that the parasite is guarding the eggs... Very interesting behaviour...
Cheers
Martin
… Martin Hauser, 7 June, 2006 - 1:56am login or register to post comments

 
Hmmm
I collected some bug eggs like these from my yard in southern California. Brought them indoors to see 'em hatch. Tiny wasps hatched instead. I noticed the first one hatching. It then hung around. Later I noticed more wasps hatching, and it appeared the 1st one was mating with each of them. Some others started to hatch and the first one looked like it was checking them out, then they never fully emerged from the egg. Purely anecdotal evidence, but it seemed to me the first hatched wasp was a male which then mated with each female, and killed each succeeding male.
… Joyce Thompson, 18 September, 2006 - 3:54pm login or register to post comments

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