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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Microgastrinae » Apanteles
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Wasp cocoon? attached to caterpillar - Apanteles
Copyright © 2019 Yurika Alexander

Wasp cocoon? attached to caterpillar - Apanteles
Atco, Camden County, New Jersey, USA
July 20, 2019
Size: Cocoon 5mm?
Found on young winged sumac.
Caterpillar is Fall Webworm (Hyphantria cunea).
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Contributed by Yurika Alexander on 20 July, 2019 - 8:11pm
Last updated 17 November, 2021 - 3:25pm

Moved
Moved from Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps.

Microgastrine parasitoids of the fall webworm include Apanteles diacrisiae and Apanteles hyphantriae.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 17 November, 2021 - 3:25pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… John S. Ascher, 9 August, 2019 - 6:00am login or register to post comments

Probably a Microgastrinae cocoon…
Collect both, put them in a sealed jar, and see what emerges.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 20 July, 2019 - 10:07pm login or register to post comments

 
It's too late now...
When I went back around 10:30 am and cocoon was already empty!
Dead caterpillar was fell to the ground...
And I corrected size of cocoon from 7mm to 5mm.
… Yurika Alexander, 21 July, 2019 - 12:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Right - lesson for next time...
And there will be a next time.
… Ross Hill, 21 July, 2019 - 1:04pm login or register to post comments

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