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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Platygastroidea » Scelionidae » Telenominae » Telenomus
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Unidentified Parasitic Wasp on Tawny Emperor butterfly eggs - Telenomus - female
Copyright © 2016 Jay Cossey

Unidentified Parasitic Wasp on Tawny Emperor butterfly eggs - Telenomus - Female
Skunk's Misery, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
July 28, 2016
Size: ~1 mm
I was photographing a cluster of freshly-laid Tawny Emperor butterfly eggs (I watched them being laid--they were fresh!). Within a few short minutes I spotted this tiny, nearly invisible wasp already laying her eggs among the butterfly eggs. (Are those her long, thin eggs on the left?)

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Unidentified Parasitic Wasp on Tawny Emperor butterfly eggs - Telenomus - female Unidentified Parasitic Wasp on Tawny Emperor butterfly eggs - Telenomus - female
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Contributed by Jay Cossey on 28 July, 2016 - 11:16pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request. Amazing shots and a great moment to capture!
… Aaron Hunt, 29 July, 2016 - 12:04am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
This stuff is endlessly fascinating! :-)
… Jay Cossey, 30 July, 2016 - 3:09pm login or register to post comments

Telenomus (female)…
An egg parasitoid. This female wasp is injecting her own eggs into these butterfly eggs.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 28 July, 2016 - 11:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
I appreciate you taking a look at this for me. (I've added a second image.)
… Jay Cossey, 28 July, 2016 - 11:36pm login or register to post comments

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