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17 lis 2022 · Learn about the braconid wasps - their life cycle (eggs, larvae, cocoons), & benefits, what do they eat, & are they dangerous, along with pictures.
Adults lay eggs on or in soft-bodied caterpillars including cabbage worms, tomato hornworms, and other garden pests. They are attracted by the smell of caterpillars munching on plant leaves. The braconid larvae feed inside their living hosts, weakening or killing them.
9 maj 2024 · Unlike ichneumon wasps, many pupate in silken cocoons outside the body of the host and others spin cocoons entirely apart from the host. Also unlike ichneumonid wasps, very few braconids use host pupae to complete their life cycles, except for fly parasitoids in Alysiinae and Opiinae.
14 lis 2014 · This book shows how, with better supported phylogenetic hypotheses entomologists can understand far more about the ways natural selection is acting upon them.
28 gru 2023 · Each major group and each subfamily are then discussed individually, including what is known of their biology, recent taxonomic descriptions and relevant identification works for the S.E. Asian representatives. Representative species and identification characters are illustrated photographically.
17 sie 2024 · Wasp identification photos, Flickr - excellent and high quality photos illustrating the key ID features referred to in the keys above. Natural History Museum Guide to common British ichneumon wasps - a very useful guide to 20+ species that can be identified from a good photo.
1 cze 2016 · Microbiome studies of the parasitoid wasp, Dolichogenidea metesae (Nixon) (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) are important because D. metesae has potential as a biological control agent to suppress the...
