A Female Parasitoid Wasp (IMAGE)

Entomological Society of America

A Female Parasitoid Wasp

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A female parasitoid wasp, Muscidifurax raptorellus, inserting an egg into a fly puparium. When the egg hatches, the wasp larva will eat the fly pupa.

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Lyle Buss, University of Florida.

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