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Parasitoid wasps

Numerous small parasitoid wasps Pteromalus puparum sepecies.

Pteromalus puparum is a species of parasitoid wasps found in Aotearoa New Zealand. They were introduced by government entomologists to control cabbage white butterflies, an agricultural pest species.

Here, female wasps lay eggs on a cabbage white butterfly pupa.

Rights: Ramunė Vakarė, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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