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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Platygastroidea » Scelionidae » Scelioninae » Baeus
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Dwarf flightless Scelionid Wasp - Baeus - female
Copyright © 2008 tom murray

Dwarf flightless Scelionid Wasp - Baeus - Female
Wayland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
April 17, 2008
Size: .8mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 17 April, 2008 - 10:37pm

this is the image i usually u
this is the image i usually use to prove to people bugs are cute
… Cobweb, 16 July, 2013 - 8:33pm login or register to post comments

So cute!
I love Baeus wasps :) So adorable!
… reinat, 9 September, 2009 - 2:06am login or register to post comments

WOW
I never would have guessed this was a wasp. Thanks for the info Richard!
… tom murray, 17 April, 2008 - 11:10pm login or register to post comments

Dwarf flightless Scelionid Wasp (Baeus sp.) - female
These very small parasitoids of spider eggs are doubtless the most misleading of Apocritan Hymenoptera.
The five-segmented tarsi indicate this pygmy is no Hemipteran.
… Richard Vernier, 17 April, 2008 - 10:47pm login or register to post comments

 
No way:-)
Where's the rest of it??? LOL! Just when you think you've seen it all....
… Eric R. Eaton, 18 April, 2008 - 1:53pm login or register to post comments

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