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Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
eggs
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-08 14:46:24
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
Pentatomidae eggs
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 70
eggs
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-13 16:38:22
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
eggs
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 71
eggs
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-15 19:37:53
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
eggs
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 72
eggs
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-16 10:29:51
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
eggs
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 73
eggs
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-17 16:22:58
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
eggs
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 74
freshly hatched
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-18 11:11:14
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
freshly hatched
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 75
freshly hatched parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-19 11:14:17
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
Trissolcus sp. freshly hatched parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 76
freshly hatched parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-19 11:14:21
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
Trissolcus sp. freshly hatched parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 77
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-20 12:54:19
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 78
parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-26 15:58:43
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
Trissolcus sp. parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 79
parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-26 15:58:10
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
Trissolcus sp. parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 80
parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-26 15:56:18
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
Trissolcus sp. parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 81
parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-26 15:55:08
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
Trissolcus sp. parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 82
parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-26 15:52:37
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
Trissolcus sp. parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 83
parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-21 16:22:00
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
Trissolcus sp. parasitoid
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 85
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
2021-08-19 11:12:41
6 Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
Image number: 84
On 8 August 2021 I found a clutch of 14 light green shieldbug eggs on the underside of a maple leaf. After 5 days, the now cream-coloured eggs had lost their green colouring. 2 days later, life could be seen developing in the transparent egg cases. The reddish-brown spots initially documented the development of the compound eyes and ocelli of the egg case inhabitants, which took on a dark colouration before hatching. 10 days after the finding, the first small wasp hatched. After 12 days all egg cases were abandoned. The first wasp, a male, differs by its slender, evenly coloured antennae from the later hatched female wasps (last 5 segments darkened and more club-shaped). The wasps, about 1.5 mm in size, moved very quickly and lived for about 1 week.
On closer inspection of the photos, a few small, whitish, approx. 0.6 mm long eggs of unknown origin can still be seen between the shieldbug eggs (last picture).