Jan 15, 2025
Aphytis sp. nugget wasp, carved from living Mango
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Aphytis sp. nugget wasp, carved from living Mango
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I've been watching this Carolina Mantis ootheca for months waiting for them to hatch, but I believe I've captured something even more interesting than just a standard mantis hatching!
On April 21st, I captured this wasp mother (Likely Eupelmidae) ovipositing into the egg case!
(It starts getting interesting around 2:30, and she starts ovipositing around 3:30!)
This was great to witness—Although I was disappointed that the mantises likely wouldn't hatch (I did, though, see mantis babies elsewhere), getting to see and capture a parasitoid in action was fascinating!
That's not all, however. I kept watch, and over the next two weeks I continued to occasionally see what may have been the same wasp, or perhaps different wasps of the same family, which you can see here on my iNaturalist page! If it was indeed the same one, I'm curious as to what she was doing there, be it keeping guard or otherwise!
Regardless, eventually the Eupelmid wasp stopped appearing... and in its place came some Crematogaster ants and a Podagrion wasp!
(The most interesting bits are closer to the end!)
The ants began to eat away at the protein foam of the ooth, while the wasp oviposited into the already parasitized eggs! Absolutely fascinating!
[PHOTO TAKEN: MAY 16TH, 2025 | Image ID: A photo of a black Podagrion genus wasp ovipositing into a Carolina mantis ooth /End ID.]
Here's a closer look! Here you can see the ovipositor getting into that egg case, and those signature Chalcidoid hindlegs!
I've yet to see anything leave the ooth, but I'm curious as to what will happen between the parasites in this situation!
Look at those legs!
Chalcids are like that. I am not quite sure what the purpose is, but these buff (but very small) insects are parasites of other insects. This one was found in the Dominican Republic, but similar ones can be found right around my house in Maryland.
Leg. Day. Bae. What can I say. 💛💛
(Conura wasp)
Video of yesterday's Aenasius nugget wasp, going about Serious Wasp Business 💗
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I had just about given up on this little larval casing I picked up in October of last year, but tonight I get home to find this Leucospis species chalcid wasp had emerged!
I guess the lesson is don't give up on your weird lumps, they may still produce weird lumps 🖤
(Emotional Support Chalcid?)
And sometimes you get the original maker, a nugget-y resin bee:
Blooming goldenrod attracts some silly creatures, like this monster (relatively speaking) Chalcid wasp with a very silly ovipositor. It's folded up on her back.
Leucospis sp.
Sometimes you get what you expect out of a little larval case (resin bee, Anthidiellum perplexum, 1st 2 shots), and sometimes you get... something else: a Leucospis species wasp, some of which are parasitoids of solitary bee larvae. So that's a thing I learned today.