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Ripiphorus diadasiae
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Copyright © 2007
Mac Danzig
Varroa mites on wasp -
Ripiphorus diadasiae
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Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, USA
April 24, 2007
varroa mites and an ant on a dying wasp? unknown species to me.
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Contributed by
Mac Danzig
on 25 April, 2007 - 10:22pm
Last updated 18 March, 2009 - 2:56pm
Adult rhipiphorids are very short-lived
I've read adult males often live for just a single day. So if you find one in the late afternoon it may indeed be dying...without mites or other factors necessarily contributing to the process.
I found a female once in the late afternoon (attached via her ovipositor to a flower head) that was very lethargic...almost life-less.
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Aaron Schusteff
, 19 January, 2013 - 9:37pm
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Are you sure they are varroa?
Although somewhat similar, they don't look like the varroa images I've seen. I notice another diferently-shaped mite (or something), a bit out of focus, is perched below the two flat mites.
Okay, now that I have seen the prior post and realize what this is, let me indicate that I see what might be *a* mite on the back below the elytra.
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Jim McClarin
, 25 April, 2007 - 10:34pm
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a red ant
that was an ant below on the lower part of the wings
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Mac Danzig
, 25 April, 2007 - 11:36pm
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I see it !
Now that I know what I'm looking at it's easy to see :-) Boy, what a visual tease this set of images has been!
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Jim McClarin
, 26 April, 2007 - 6:12am
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