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Eupelmidae, ex Lasioptera lorrainae, 2 of many - Eupelmus - female
Copyright © 2020 MJ Hatfield

Eupelmidae, ex Lasioptera lorrainae, 2 of many - Eupelmus - Female
Ada Hayden Park, Story County, Iowa, USA
May 12, 2018
Some of the galls, batch rearing


November 17, 2017: JD Thompson collected a lot of branchlet galls on Mountain mint, Pycnanthemum virginianum, sending some to Dr. R. Gagné and some to me
April 16, 2018: 2 wasps emerged
… wasps continued to emerge, wasps, wasps, I want a fly, wasps, quit counting after 60, most were Eupelmus but a few others were different
June 11, 2018: last wasp emerged
Not one single fly.

Batch rearing

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 15 April, 2020 - 2:36pm
Last updated 28 January, 2024 - 1:48pm

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