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Acanalonia #1 (perhaps bivittata),  nymph with parasitoid - Acanalonia

Acanalonia #1 (perhaps bivittata), nymph with parasitoid - Acanalonia
Mt. Talbot or Riverside Bluff, Woodbury County, Iowa, USA
August 20, 2014
Size: 2.5 mm
August 14, 2014: Sweep net 2 Acanalonia nymphs, 2 different locations, which I think to be bivittata but they both died before I took a live photo. each parasitoid external sac looked different.
The other nymph:


Photo is of the dead nymph.

This wasp larva did emerge from the thaylacium, spin a cocoon and emerge as an adult from one of the Acanalonia nymphs.

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Acanalonia #1 (perhaps bivittata),  nymph with parasitoid - Acanalonia Acanalonia #1 (perhaps bivittata),  nymph with parasitoid - Acanalonia