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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Platygastroidea » Platygastridae
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small wasp possibly laying eggs
Copyright © 2021 Larry Reis

small wasp possibly laying eggs
Moe Park, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
May 28, 2020
Size: ~4 mm
I'm not sure what is going on here. I thought this might be a parasitoid wasp but it appears to be laying eggs on a grass leaf. Maybe it is laying its eggs in the eggs that were already deposited there?

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Contributed by Larry Reis on 14 December, 2021 - 8:15am
Last updated 14 December, 2021 - 10:00am

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… Bob Zuparko, 14 December, 2021 - 10:00am login or register to post comments

Platygaster…
An egg parasitoid.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 14 December, 2021 - 9:25am login or register to post comments

 
Platygaster
Thanks for your help in identifying this egg parasitoid wasp, Ross! I thought that it might be laying eggs on or in some eggs already on the leaf.
… Larry Reis, 14 December, 2021 - 10:49am login or register to post comments

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