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Papaipema in Green Pepper - Papaipema
Copyright © 2019 MJ Hatfield

Papaipema in Green Pepper - Papaipema
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
July 15, 2018
July 15, 2018: picked a half rotted green pepper from the garden, perhaps I could cut off the rot, and in so doing found the culprit, a one stripe Papaipema larva
Likely suspects, P. arctivorens or P. nebris
It didn't make it to adult

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 23 January, 2019 - 8:54pm

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