Collected from a gall on Silphium asteriscus var. latifolium.
Gall was collected on 3 Oct 2023. Two Eurytoma sp. parasitoids emerged 25 Apr 2024. The gall and parasitoid adults were frozen (my incorrect assumption that they were inducers). I waited a week and fearing they were dead, and not wanting them to deteriorate, I opened the gall. I found eight adult inducers and five adult Eurytoma parasitoids. Additionally I found one larva that did not develop. All were dead but all of the adults appeared fully mature and several had begun tunneling out of the gall.
Note: Two Eurytoma adults emerged alive, I found five inside the gall for a total of seven.
Observation for gall: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/185363470
Observation for host plant: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/185363280
Observation for inducer adults: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/212771464
Observation for undeveloped larva: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/212771469
Adults that emerged 25 Apr 2024:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/209503568 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/209504010
Yet another new species! Original host gall observation here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/167275394
focus on prey.
Flew quickly
Emerged 25 Apr 2024. Original gall observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/185363470
Stem gall wasp on Pyrrhopappus grandiflorus
Observation for the adult. On Eucalyptus racemosa.
Two pairs in tandem with females ovipositing in rotting wood.
River Trail Park,
Luling,
Caldwell Co., Texas
22 July 2016
Came from leafmine of Phytomyza syngenesiae
Several wasps of both sexes roosting on hakea, grevillea and finica nodosa
8-10 mm long.
Little dude asked if he could borrow my eclipse glasses
Wasp going up and down old dead tree beside road.
black insect, red butt
Rose https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144168110, gall https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144168112, insect https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144168113
I am hoping to get an ID on the wasp
Very small, but I didn't measure them. On a red maple leaf for scale.
a) The jumping spider resemblance is insane. b) The range of sizes among adults is insane. What is up with this fly.
Identified in the Diptera.info forum: https://diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=112720
Identified in the Diptera.info forum: https://diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=112720
Given the long antennae
On Takecallis arundinariae
Drama on the sea holly
Wasp galls on Mugwort
An extremely tiny wasp.
Body length 2 mm. CF5041. Malaise trap collection.
Two wasps - one seemingly laying eggs in the tree's bark.
Insecte, Centrafrique
Copyright IRD - Gerard Galat
From seeds of Maytenus acuminata
emerged from https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/198908816
Short, squat, almost rectangular. About 8mm long. Only managed the one photo before it buzzed off.
Too busy doing the thing to notice me