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spiny oak slug caterpillar with wasp eggs

Euclea delphinii

Description:

It is a small caterpillar similar to the genus parasa.This caterpillar has parasitic wasp eggs that were before small and turned big and were about to turn into wasps.

Habitat:

urban

Notes:

The caterpillar eventually died.

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3 Comments

Ornithoptera80
Ornithoptera80 4 years ago

Thanks,at first i thought it was shedding or turning into a cocoon but then this came out.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 4 years ago

Wow that's quite a sight. I guess the stinging spines didn't help. ;-)

Ornithoptera80
Ornithoptera80 4 years ago

I meant that they were digging their way through the body and eating the insect alive!!!

Ornithoptera80
Spotted by
Ornithoptera80

Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Spotted on Aug 20, 2018
Submitted on Aug 11, 2019

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