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Unidentified Egg/Larva - Curculionidae??
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Unidentified Egg/Larva - Curculionidae??
Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
January 12, 2020
I found a bunch of eggs in some very rotten wood....This photo shows the larva from one of the eggs.

The eggs were about 5 mm long and were hard - in fact, I wondered if they might be seeds at first. I took a couple home and cracked one open under my digital scope to examine the larva.

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Contributed by ChristineYoung on 14 January, 2020 - 1:16pm
Last updated 15 January, 2020 - 12:21pm

Gall wasp larvae
These (to me) seem most likely to be the larva of a cynipid wasp. Several species make small, seed-like galls that drop to the forest floor where they'll over winter under debris and/or leaf litter until the following spring, but how so many ended up inside rotted wood is a bit of surprise. I wonder if ants hoarded them?
… Jonas Insinga, 8 January, 2022 - 3:30pm login or register to post comments

Video of Larva
A video of the larva can be found here: https://vimeo.com/384793063
… ChristineYoung, 14 January, 2020 - 1:19pm login or register to post comments

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