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Parasite Wasp

DateThu 2014-10-16

What I think is a Braconid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) on  a leaf mine on dock (Rumex sp).  The wasp is probably laying an egg on the fly larva that made the mine. 

For a wasp that hatched out of a dock leaf I collected the same day, see here.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-06-23.

AuthorTristram Brelstaff | CommentPost a Comment |
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