A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Neorileya sp., Eurytomidae, subfamily Rileyinae
Investigations into the mystery of wasp spinning silk on eggs of Pentatomidae bedbugs: https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2015/11/... Thanks, Charley
Eggs with silk: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/177...
6 Comments
Hi, John La Salle, thanks for all your attention to this wasp.
Hi Sckel
I sent this sighting through to a couple of colleagues who figure that the wasp is in the Eurytomidae, subfamily Rileyinae, genus Neorileya. So you can update your sighting to that genus.
Again - this is a very nice sighting and records a quite unusual and little known behaviour.
Hi, John, Charley update information
https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/
Sckel
You can always just send me an email if you want to ask something - my email is in my profile information. I don't always check Noah every day, so just send a message and I will go have a look. I am trying to get more information for you. - John
Thank you John, I was so anxious to have your opinion. I collected the eggs parasitized, but can not find someone to examine them for me. I'll take pictures when the adults emerge.
Sckel. This is a great sighting of a quite strange behaviour. I am not quite sure what to make of this - I have posted information about this sighting on a parasitic Hymenoptera list serve so I am hoping someone will come back with more information - which I will either pass along or maybe they will comment directly.