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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) » Aphid Mummy Wasps (Aphidiinae)

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Copyright © 2014 A.D.Levine

larger brown round visitors

Goshen, Orange County, New York, USA
Size: apx 3mm

How do these relate to the other visitors to the pod??

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Contributed by A.D.Levine on 12 September, 2014 - 12:18pm
Last updated 12 September, 2014 - 1:22pm

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… John Stanard, 12 September, 2014 - 1:22pm

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By pod you mean?

By pod you mean the ballooned out brown insects? I'm curious too. I don't know much about aphid life cycles. I am thinking could the with things actually be exuviae (skin) left behind after molting. Could the brown spheres with legs be pregnant aphids, or aphids preparing to molt?
Getting down to this scale it's hard to watch with the unaided eye, so I only have a rough idea of what goes on. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will comment.

… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 12 September, 2014 - 12:50pm

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pod

i meant the large seed pod upon which all of this was happening.

… A.D.Levine, 12 September, 2014 - 4:58pm

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I considered that possibility, but I'm glad I miscontrued...

I had seen those mummies before and wondered what was up with them. I new they weren't dead. But they seemed sort of possessed.

… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 12 September, 2014 - 10:12pm

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Whoa! Very interesting, Ross!

The brown ones have been parasited? Did you see the photo with the ghost-like white things? Are those left overs, or insects proper?

I was going to post a photo of a wasp near a group of three aphids. It's and odd photo because one or two of the aphids seem to be rolled over on their back or sides. A slime seems to be coming out of the supine aphid. It could be honeydew, but I'm thinking it was possibly just zapped by the wasp.

… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 12 September, 2014 - 12:53pm

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Aphidiinae...

These are wasp parasitized aphid "mummies".

See reference here.

… Ross Hill, 12 September, 2014 - 12:46pm

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