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Pineus pinifoliae - female
Copyright © 2019 Charley Eiseman

Pineus pinifoliae - Female
Vermont Grange Center, Brookfield, Orange County, Vermont, USA
June 17, 2019
Size: 2.5 mm (including wings)
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 3 December, 2019 - 7:44pm

Guarding or actively laying
Is this posture the insect actively guarding its eggs or are they in the process of depositing these eggs? This is a really good photograph of an interesting behavior given how tiny the subject is.
… Jonas Insinga, 3 December, 2021 - 1:53pm

 
Guarding, I guess
I took this photo many hours, if not a day or two, after I collected the pine needle, and she never moved.
… Charley Eiseman, 3 December, 2021 - 2:12pm

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