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Photo#159846
Scelionidae - Trissolcus

Scelionidae - Trissolcus
Naples, Collier County, Florida, USA
December 3, 2007
Size: Egg:>0,5mm, Hatch >1mm
I know these images are rough but these are extremely small. Eggs laid 11/20 or 11/21. Hatched 12/03. Located on opening to garage door framing. The close up of just the hatchlings is desaturated in color to better adjust for viewing. When I first noticed the eggs there were adult (flies? that looked like the hatchlings) in the webbing for two days. This and the size difference makes me think the eggs were just hosts. I have photos of each day only changes were in color from tan to color at hatching.

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Moved
Moved from Platygastridae.

Moved
Moved from Scelionidae.

Moved
Moved from parasitic Apocrita.

Moved
Moved from Frass. Ok, done.

This is a great capture of parasitoids
Wish we could see eveything that is going on here. What are the green ones? Should we save maybe this or the middle image as a record of the event?

 
My vote
I vote for the middle one.

 
my vote
I actually like all of them -- they each provide a bit of info that the others don't. It's a very interesting scene. I wish the clarity of the photos was better, but maybe we should keep all of them until we get better photos of a similar scene?

Maybe if I'm lucky I'll run across something like this one day...

Frassed
Moved from Frass.

Frassed
Moved from ID Request.

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