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Pupal cases from a braconid wasp. Small tubes with a lid, about 5 mm long.
Semi desert
Spotted on Sep 9, 2012
Submitted on Sep 12, 2012
7 Comments
Thank you ForestDragon for the ID and the links.
I was browsing bugguide.net and came across this:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/54368/bgpa...
http://bugguide.net/node/view/344987/bgp...
There is a good chance that these could be empty pupal cases from Braconid (Family Braconidae ).
Thank you Forest Dragon
These are very similar but much larger (I thought they looked like little mailboxes with the tiny hinged doors).
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/138... I'm guessing, but I suspect they may belong to some kind of moth.
Very interesting!
You are right auntnance123, they look more like very small coccoons. I'll change the common name.
They look more like coccoons to me.