From the lady beetles that Bethany collected, I managed to grab a parasitoid after it emerged from the pupa and place it in a petri dish with a convergent lady beetle. It did not take long for the parasitoid to attack the lady beetle.
We are going to keep this beetle alive for a couple weeks and then freeze it for dissection so we can find out what the larvae of the parasitoid looks like.
This is really amazing! It's hard for me to imagine what tiny creatures you work with! Keep up the hard work! Your blog is so interesting!
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