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Gelechiidae, some of the Horse nettle galls - Frumenta nundinella
Copyright © 2024 MJ Hatfield

Gelechiidae, some of the Horse nettle galls - Frumenta nundinella
Land of the Swamp White Oak Preserve, Muscatine County, Iowa, USA
May 30, 2024
May 30, 2024: with help from M. Hayne, collected galls on Horse nettle, Solanum carolinense, in a planted prairie, opened gall to a larva

Divided the galls into 3 rearing jars
033-1-M24 had 1 gall, which yielded an ichneumonid wasp


033-2-M24 had 3 galls that yielded no life

033-3-M24 had 3 galls with yielded 2 wasps, both of which looked the same, or very similar to each other
June 22, 2024: this was the first to emerge


June 30, 2024: the second one emerged
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 3 July, 2024 - 9:40am
Last updated 23 January, 2025 - 11:25am

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