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Catalpa caterpillar covered with parasitic ...
Here an undetermined caterpillar is shown with the
wasp lays her eggs on the caterpillar so ...
The Pawpaw Sphinx caterpillars I found on a winterberry plant were infested ...
Under the Tailed Jay Caterpillar (Graphium ...
The beetle is alive and attached to the
that drew my attention was the little white pile of now known to be
Usually it doesn't have all those wasp ...
its heavy burden of parasitoid wasp
Dinocampus coccinellae is a common
to adulthood due to the attached parasite ...
Green caterpillar with a long, thin, yellow line along body and a humped rear. ...
This is a ladybug that has been turned into a zombie by a
white cocoons are a sure sign of
A wasp has injected eggs into this Sphinx ...
August 12), and then three days later (on August 15), after all the
Mostly external parasites of pupae and ...
This rather large caterpillar was already dead when I found it, killed by the ...
cottonlike material under the caterpillar is a mass of small white
will never metamorphose into a moth. It has been infested by a
Alongside the wasp
the whole process in gruesome detail, ...
These Tiny Parasitic
A 34mm long tussock caterpillar parasitised by
Black wasp with long abdomen, and some ...
Very tiny; long antennae. My finger is included for scale in the fourth picture.