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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Microgastrinae » Cotesia » Hornworm Parasitoid Wasp (Cotesia congregata)
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Manduca sexta and parasite wasp cocoon - Cotesia congregata
Copyright © 2011 Kuan-Hsiang Huang

Manduca sexta and parasite wasp cocoon - Cotesia congregata
Snellville, Gwinnett County, Georgia, USA
August 28, 2011
Size: 2 inches
Found this tobacco hornworm on my tomato plant. The wasps just came out and the build the cocoons. I peeled it open and found a larvae inside. I took some close up pictures of the caterpilliar and the parasites. They can be viewed on on my microscope blog:
http://practical-microscopy.blogspot.com/2011/08/tobacco-hornworm-manduca-sexta-and.html

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Contributed by Kuan-Hsiang Huang on 31 August, 2011 - 9:55pm
Last updated 8 November, 2021 - 5:19pm

Moved
Moved from Microgastrinae.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 8 November, 2021 - 5:19pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita).
… Bob Zuparko, 19 February, 2018 - 6:26pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Carolina Sphinx.
… John S. Ascher, 10 September, 2015 - 11:31am login or register to post comments

Cotesia…
The parasitoids that develop will likely be those of Cotesia congregata, a braconid wasp specialist that often attacks this moth species.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 31 August, 2011 - 10:36pm login or register to post comments

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