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Chalcidoidea
This tiny black wasp maybe a braconid wasp. The row of eggs are believed to be sawfly eggs and each seems to have killed by a small predator. possibly similar to this wasp.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/r... Both the host and the parasitoid are in the same insect order; Hymenoptera http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/889... http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/876...
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Thank you John La Salle for the update.
They are all too complex for us hobbyists but its possible interest in the eggs was what prompted my photograph.
Not a braconid - definitely some Chalcidoidea.
I am guessing (stress guessing) Encyrtidae - but really can't tell from the pictures and it could be from a couple of other families.