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Thanks, Matt. Can you tell us a little more about Platygastroids? We don't even have a page for that superfamily. Which families belong to it? We could add any info you give us to the page.

… Beatriz Moisset, 30 May, 2009 - 10:35am

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… Sean McCann, 12 July, 2006 - 6:52am

Interesting!

Wonder if you are seeing the emergence of a parasitoid? They look like stinkbug eggs, but a wasp may have laid her eggs in some of them. Keep watching and see if more than one kind of bug emerges. Exciting find!

… john and jane balaban, 11 July, 2006 - 10:48pm

I watched.......

but the only thing that came out were these wasps. If they are stinkbug eggs, they were all parasitized. Pretty interesting though.

… Arlene Ripley, 12 July, 2006 - 4:22pm

One of the reasons for our statement

is that wasps don't lay eggs that hatch into adults. Wasp eggs become larva that feed and grow and become pupa, and then eclose into adults.

… john and jane balaban, 12 July, 2006 - 5:59pm

Yes....

I understand the wasp life cycle. Guess they had 100% success in parasitizing these eggs.

… Arlene Ripley, 13 July, 2006 - 5:04pm

Family?

I know nothing about this but maybe they belong to the family Scelionidae, read this and this.

… Beatriz Moisset, 20 August, 2006 - 10:16am

Thank you...

for those references. It certainly does seem like the eggs were stinkbugs and the tiny wasps were of the Scelionidae family.

… Arlene Ripley, 21 August, 2006 - 10:11pm

Chalcidoids, not platygastroids

You can see some metallic coloration in this wasp, which is extremely common in chalcidoids but extremely rare in platygastroids.

… matt_yoder, 30 May, 2009 - 10:28am