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Weevil pupa in Desmodium seed
Copyright © 2017 MJ Hatfield

Weevil pupa in Desmodium seed
Plymouth Rock, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
September 26, 2017
Size: 2- mm
September 25, 2017: seed pods of Showy Tick Trefoil, Desmodium canadense, stuck to Rich's clothes after walking through the planted prairie
September 26, 2017: looked closely at several pods which were empty, had an adult weevil or wasp pupa. This one had a weevil pupa. The eyes darken first, then the rostrum, then legs, but it died.

I was so hoping that this pupa would make it to an adult so that there would be a snippet of the life cycle of just one individual.
It didn't make it. Fungal growth did not help.

A few days previous:

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 26 December, 2017 - 8:52am
Last updated 30 December, 2017 - 8:18pm

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