Parasitoid wasps

asobara
Parasitoid wasp in the family Braconidae (genus Asobara)

pachycrepoideus
Parasitoid wasp in the family Pteromalidae (genus Pachycrepoideus)

Jamie Wahls, grad student in Tom Kuhar’s Vegetable Entomology Lab @ VT, visited our lab again with some of his fascinating parasitoid wasps. These are images of unidentified species of braconid and pteromalid that we captured with our  microphotography system. Handsome beasts.

(Canon 6D, 65 mm lens, 3x, 1/125s, f5.6 – image stack)

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