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Photo#179044
Copyright © 2008
Cynthia Tedore
cocoon
Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
April 25, 2008
Size: 1cm
Anybody recognize what kind of cocoon this is? Thanks!
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Contributed by
Cynthia Tedore
on 26 April, 2008 - 12:23pm
Last updated 10 January, 2009 - 2:51am
Moved
Moved from
Cocoons
.
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Charley Eiseman
, 10 January, 2009 - 2:51am
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Moved
Moved from
Cocoons
. Very similar to the
Hyposoter
cocoon on p. 23 of
Wagner
.
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Charley Eiseman
, 26 May, 2008 - 7:33pm
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Parasitoid wasp
...as you may have guessed based on the dead caterpillar next to it.
This page
shows several similar cocoons (scroll down), but I'm not convinced that they are all identified/filed correctly. Definitely ichneumonoid, but it's not clear to me if both ichneumonids and braconids can have cocoons similar to this, or if one of the two could be said with certainty. Definitely worth collecting and seeing what emerges!
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Charley Eiseman
, 26 April, 2008 - 7:58pm
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OK, next time I go visit that
OK, next time I go visit that area, I will look for it and collect it if I can find it. Fun!
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Cynthia Tedore
, 26 April, 2008 - 11:46pm
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