onenicebugperday:Encyrtid parasitoid wasp, Dicarnosis erythrocephala, Encyrtidae, Chalcidoide
onenicebugperday: Encyrtid parasitoid wasp, Dicarnosis erythrocephala, Encyrtidae, Chalcidoidea Some species of Encyrtid wasps exhibit a remarkable developmental phenomenon called polyembryony, in which a single egg multiplies clonally in the host and produces large numbers of identical adult wasps. Even more remarkably, some of the larvae are larger than the others and act in a similar way to the soldiers of eusocial insects, attacking any other wasp larvae already in the body of the host, and dying without reproducing (see: biological altruism). Photographed in Arizona by froggy143 -- source link
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