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Culm wasp #1, adult - Tetramesa
Copyright © 2018 John van der Linden

Culm wasp #1, adult - Tetramesa
Fern Hollow, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
June/July 2017 Collected culms of a woodland grass with slight thickenings/swellings containing wasp larvae
07/05/17 Photos of a culm chamber and its larva



Batch rearing

05/15/18 Adults found alive in rearing container, some out and about, others still inside the overwintered culms. This individual was still in its culm-chamber.

Another adult, same batch

Images of this individual: tag all
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Contributed by John van der Linden on 3 July, 2018 - 12:52pm
Last updated 3 July, 2018 - 1:58pm

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
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Tetramesa (female)…
See reference here.
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Host plant ID needed
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