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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Eulophidae » Eulophinae » Eulophini » Euplectrus
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Lastly, I Will My Body to Science... - Euplectrus
Copyright © 2014 Gacko

Lastly, I Will My Body to Science... - Euplectrus
Desoto, Dallas County, Texas, USA
June 1, 2014
Size: 29mm and slender
Four days later the larvae looked like this. The next day all that was left in the container was a shriveled dead caterpillar.

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Lastly, I Will My Body to Science... - Euplectrus Lastly, I Will My Body to Science... - Euplectrus
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Contributed by Gacko on 6 June, 2014 - 8:48pm
Last updated 16 August, 2014 - 3:09pm

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… Gacko, 16 August, 2014 - 3:09pm login or register to post comments

Leaving this here
to see if someone will comment on the caterpillar.
… Gacko, 6 June, 2014 - 10:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Phoberia
It does look like a Phoberia species, possibly P. atomaris.
… LaciP, 5 July, 2014 - 4:36pm login or register to post comments

Euplectrus…
Looks like late-stage Euplectrus larvae, a type of chalcid wasp. They usually feed for about 5 or 6 days before spinning loose cocoons near the unfortunate corpse.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 6 June, 2014 - 9:07pm login or register to post comments

someplace in there a bunch of baby wasps are pupating..
where are they?
… Edna Woodward, 6 June, 2014 - 8:53pm login or register to post comments

 
As I was going to sleep last night
I thought, "I should put it in another container so they can't get out." But when I went to do so today it was too late. They easily escaped the mesh sides of the container. [edit] Or, now that I read Ross' note, they are probably in the dirt that was at the bottom. I gently sifted through but didn't see anything (but I'm due for cataract surgery!)
… Gacko, 6 June, 2014 - 9:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Yeah...
The adults are only about 2 or 3mm in length. They've earned their freedom.
… Ross Hill, 6 June, 2014 - 9:33pm login or register to post comments

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