April 18, 2022: collected a few stems of Prairie dock, Silphium terebinthinaceum, (in a planted prairie) looking for possible gall wasps.
April 20, 2022: opened the stems to not much; some evidence of stem boring, white frass and darkened frass, and 3 fly pupae. 2 stems were taped closed around a pupa and put into their own vial. Later, each of those later yielded a wasp. The 3rd pupa looked damaged so opened it to a fly larva (which may have been dead). For some reason (my notes state no reason), put the fly larva into a gel cap.
May 18, 2022: in the gel cap the fly larva was dead and there was also a wasp larva
August 5, 2022: (ok, didn’t check very often) dead wasp in gel cap