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Parasitoid wasps

Braconidae

Habitat:

Desenvolvimento larval: Lagarta (http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/333... hospedeiro).

Notes:

Dezenas de pequenas vespas Braconidae nasceram essa manhã em meu quintal. Eu havia encontrado os casulos em uma folha de goiabeira. Recolhi os casulos em um recipiente fechado e os mantive assim por duas semanas, para evitar ataque de formigas (Crematogastrini). Hoje, pela manhã, abri o recipiente e não havia nenhum sinal de que as vespas fossem emergir. O recipiente estava em um local fresco e escuro. Levei os casulos para fora, coloquei os no sol, para visualiza-los melhor, e as vespas começaram a emergir imediatamente. Elas emergem rapidamente e já estão aptas para voar. Em alguns segundos, quase todas haviam emergido e desaparecido. Eu nem tive chances de fazer fotos decentes ou filmar.

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5 Comments

Sckel
Sckel 9 years ago

John La Salle, thanks again for your comment, much appreciated, and thank you for the information. :) thank you, dear lauren.

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 9 years ago

Great pictures!

John La Salle
John La Salle 9 years ago

Hi Sckel. I understand perfectly, and I use the translator all the time. It is amazing to see what comes out when you start rearing things. Hang on to the cocoons for a while longer. Often other wasps parasitize the first wasps - and will come out later. You can sometimes tell that this will happen because not all the cocoons have adults emerge, or some of them turn a different colour.

Sckel
Sckel 9 years ago

Hello John, thanks for your comment. When I found these cocoons, I noticed they were larger and yellowish cocoons, different from what I had previously found, which tiny black wasps emerged, like the fig wasps. So I decided to put them and a container to know what kind of creature would emerge from the cocoons. Some wasps were mating immediately after leaving the cocoons. hope you can understand what I wrote, because I'm using the translator. Have a great day. :)

John La Salle
John La Salle 9 years ago

Hi Sckel - what a wonderful spotting. Nice to see that you are putting these larvae into containers to see what comes out.

Sckel
Spotted by
Sckel

ES, Brazil

Spotted on Aug 4, 2014
Submitted on Aug 4, 2014

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