Encyrtidae - Copidosoma

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Hi, this image is amazing! Would you mind if I used it in an upcoming (non-commercial) TEDx talk? Let me know and I can send you some details.

Many thanks,

James

… jdjgilbert, 29 May, 2014 - 11:55am

I can't figure out

how to contact you.
How do I contact you?

… MJ Hatfield, 29 May, 2014 - 4:57pm

Guiness book of records?

This must be the most parasitized caterpillar one ever gets to see.
I understand that the wasp lays only a couple of eggs and they, in turn, produce many more individuals by cloning.

… Beatriz Moisset, 24 February, 2010 - 7:08pm

You're right.

http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/ufbir/chapters/chapter_26.shtml When I read there was a record for number of wasps, I was so dispointed that I hadn't counted mine. But then what would I have done if my count came out to be 3052, just 3 short of the record? I'd be forced to recount and see if I possibly missed counting 4 wasps.

… MJ Hatfield, 24 February, 2010 - 8:04pm

Counting

parasitized moth eggs. They were on a flat surface so it was easy.

… John R. Maxwell, 25 February, 2010 - 10:49am

Haha

Then you'd get a different number the second time than you did the first time, so you'd have to count them a third time.

… Natalie Hernandez, 25 February, 2010 - 10:23am

Exactly my point.

And I have trouble counting over 10 fingers.

… MJ Hatfield, 27 February, 2010 - 6:59pm

I count things like this

in Photoshop so I can put a dot of color on each as it's counted. ;-)

… Ashley Bradford, 25 February, 2010 - 11:23am

Amazing

I just added that link to the info page for the genus, I also added the word "polyembryony" to the glossary, got temporarily lost in that fascinating "Book of Insect Records", and now it is time to go back to my taxes. Oh, wait, I think that first I will make a comment in the general discussion forum; others would like to see this too.

… Beatriz Moisset, 25 February, 2010 - 8:17am

There's a similar image of Copidosoma in

Lepidoptera of the Pacific Northwest (1) page 15. Just amazing how they completely fill the caterpillar.

… john and jane balaban, 24 February, 2010 - 7:37pm

There's also

(shudder) this beetle larva, chock-full of eulophids:

… Charley Eiseman, 24 February, 2010 - 7:53pm

Moved

Moved from Chalcid Wasps.

… Ken Wolgemuth, 21 February, 2010 - 11:55am

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Charley Eiseman, 6 February, 2010 - 9:42am

Wow!!

I have to echo all the sentiments of both disgust and fascination! Nicely captured!

… Ashley Bradford, 2 February, 2010 - 6:54pm

I just went to

the Mütter Museum Friday so I am now desensitized to this!!!

… John R. Maxwell, 31 January, 2010 - 9:56pm

...

That's a great museum, been there a few times myself!

… Dan Leeder, 1 February, 2010 - 11:53am

I have such mixed feelings looking at this picture.

Its so awesome so I just sit looking at all the parasitoids, but at the same time I feel a little nauseous...

… Natalie Hernandez, 31 January, 2010 - 8:18pm

Exactly my response

facinating yet repulsive.
I've gotten similar wasps from another unidentified Plusiinae

… MJ Hatfield, 1 February, 2010 - 5:11am

Eek

Very disturbing, but nicely captured!

… Charley Eiseman, 31 January, 2010 - 7:27pm