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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Scales and Mealybugs (Coccoidea) » Pityococcidae » Pityococcus » Pityococcus rugulosus
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Pityococcus rugulosus egg chain - Pityococcus rugulosus
Copyright © 2015 Edward L. Ruden

Pityococcus rugulosus egg chain - Pityococcus rugulosus
Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
April 2, 2015
Size: 0.27 mm eggs
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This image is from a CombineZP processed stack of 184 images with a 3.6 µm step taken with a Mitutoyo BD Plan APO 20×/0.42 ∞/0 mm microscope objective + Nikon 135 mm F2.8 AIS telephoto lens + Nikon D300 camera (magnification 13.5×; technique described here).

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Nesting adult female with egg mass - Pityococcus rugulosus - female Pityococcus rugulosus egg chain - Pityococcus rugulosus Nesting females in host caterpillar Web 1, close - Pityococcus rugulosus - female Nesting females in host caterpillar Web 1, wide - Pityococcus rugulosus - female Nesting females in host caterpillar Web 1, wider - Pityococcus rugulosus - female Nesting females in host caterpillar Web 1, whole web - Pityococcus rugulosus - female Nesting females in host caterpillar Web 2, close - Pityococcus rugulosus - female Nesting females in host caterpillar Web 2, wide - Pityococcus rugulosus - female Nesting females in host caterpillar Web 2, whole web - Pityococcus rugulosus - female
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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 2 July, 2015 - 10:15pm
Last updated 14 July, 2016 - 9:01am

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