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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice (Psocodea) » Psocomorpha » Homilopsocidea » Outer Barklice (Ectopsocidae) » Ectopsocopsis » Large-winged Psocid (Ectopsocopsis cryptomeriae)
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Spider egg parasites? - Ectopsocopsis cryptomeriae
Copyright © 2008 Steve Scott

Spider egg parasites? - Ectopsocopsis cryptomeriae
Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois, USA
November 2, 2007
Being more than a little buggy, that triggered my shutter reflex. But when I reviewed the image in the LCD I discovered that I had more than I had bargained for. There were probably 50 of these tiny flies? in and around the strands of the egg case. They did not appear to approach the eggs themselves but scurried for the shelter of the silk fibers anytime I disturbed the case.

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Spider egg parasites? - Ectopsocopsis cryptomeriae Spider egg parasites? - Ectopsocopsis cryptomeriae Spider egg parasites? - Ectopsocopsis cryptomeriae
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Contributed by Steve Scott on 13 February, 2008 - 10:34pm
Last updated 1 April, 2009 - 8:44pm

Ectopsocopsis cryptomeriae (Enderlein 1907)
Ed Mockford det.
Moved from Ectopsocidae.
… v belov, 1 April, 2009 - 8:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
to both you and Ed for the ID. I wonder if they were feeding on the eggs or if these are THEIR eggs. All I could find was a vague description of their life cycle which referenced a silken web over the eggs.
… Steve Scott, 1 April, 2009 - 9:45pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Barklice and Booklice.
… Steve Scott, 31 January, 2009 - 1:06pm login or register to post comments

this is a psocopteran
i don't know what its doing around ?spider eggs.
… Keith Bayless, 13 February, 2008 - 10:36pm login or register to post comments

 
something in Ectopsocidae
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… v belov, 30 January, 2009 - 10:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Keith
the mystery of life remains.
… Steve Scott, 13 February, 2008 - 10:43pm login or register to post comments

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