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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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Nesting females in host caterpillar Web 2, close - Pityococcus rugulosus - female
Copyright © 2016 Edward L. Ruden

Nesting females in host caterpillar Web 2, close - Pityococcus rugulosus - Female
Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
May 1, 2016
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This image is from a CombineZP processed stack of 342 images with a 22.6 µm step taken with a Mitutoyo M Plan APO 5×/0.14 ∞/0 mm microscope objective + + Nikon 200 mm F4 AIS telephoto lens + Nikon D810 camera (magnification 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 15 July, 2016 - 8:48am
Last updated 16 July, 2016 - 2:37pm

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