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  • parasitoid wasp laying eggs inside oothecae of a praying mantis.
    Rights: © d_kluza, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Published 23 May 2019 Size: 1.1 MB Referencing Hub media

    A tiny parasitoid wasp lays its eggs inside the oothecae (egg case) of a New Zealand praying mantis (Orthodera novaezealandiae). The metallic colour and long hind legs on this wasp are characteristic of the family it belongs to, the Torymidae.

    Sourced from iNaturalist NZ.

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