Braconid Wasp/Ant Parasite - Elasmosoma

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Braconid Wasp/Ant Parasite - Elasmosoma -

Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
September 22, 2012

I found this was hovering above the entrance hole of some sort of Field Ant's nest. Every so often, when the ant wasn't looking, the wasp would land on the ant's abdomen and lay an egg.

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Braconid Wasp/Ant Parasite - Elasmosoma - female

Ant Victim of parasitic wasp - Elasmosoma - female

Contributed by Sean McVey on 23 September, 2012 - 4:25pm

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