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Members in this family have long and thin body, with narrow waist like wasps.
Usually they are small in size.
- Body length
20mm
Their larvae are parasitic. Most caterpillar are targeted host. The female wasp usually locates the food plants of the host
then searches with her antennae for a suitable host. The female
usually has the long ovipositor which is used to insert eggs into the host body. The host will
usually survive when the larvae is still living. Until the larvae fully grown,
the larvae either pupates inside the dead host or form a cocoon outside.
Many aphid parasites are Braconid and their life cycles are similar.
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- Braconid Wasp
- ? sp., subfamily Braconinae, body length 15mm
- This wasp has a very long ovipositor which make believe it is a Ichneumon
Wasp. The wasp has a black head, long black antenna with white sections and
reddish-brown body. We took this picture in Yugarapul
Park in mid summer.
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- Braconid Wasp
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- ? sp., subfamily Braconinae, body length 20mm
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- Braconid Wasp
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- Chaoilta sp., subfamily Braconinae, body length 20mm
- Reference:
- 1. A
field guide to insects in Australia - By Paul Zborowski and Ross
Storey, Reed New Holland, 1996, p185.
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- Aphid Parasitic Wasp
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- Aphidius sp., subfamily Aphidiinae, body
length 2mm
- Aphid Parasitic Wasps, or Braconid Wasps,
are the very small wasps. The Parasitic Wasps can be found amongst the aphids colony, although
they may not been seen easily. The first picture shows a wasp laying egg into a aphid
body. The second picture shows a aphids colony, some of the aphids population are
dull brown in colour, which are parasitised by the wasp. More information and
pictures in this page.
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- Longtailed Fruit fly Parasitoid
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- Diachasmimorpha longicaudata, subfamily Opiinae, body length 4mm
- We have a plum plant in our backyard. Some fruits were infected by a kind
of small fruit
flies. There were the wound on the fruits, if we open it we will
see the small fruit fly larvae. Sometimes we saw the small wasp, as the about
pictures, examining the infected fruits. After checking the wound on the fruit,
the wasp will insert her ovipositor into the wound. We believed she laid eggs
which the larvae will hatch and parasite on the fruit fly larvae. Please
also check this web page.
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- Moth Caterpillar Parasite
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- Apanteles sp, subfamily Microgasterinae, body length 10mm
- Reference:
- 1. Apanteles subandinus
- Australian Insect Common Names, CSIRO 2005.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 945.
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