Image Number K9667-1

This parasitic wasp, Gonatocerus triguttatus, lays its eggs in glassy-winged sharpshooter eggs embedded in leaves. Two new wasps, G. tuberculifemur and G. metanotalis, have recently been found to attack this sharpshooter's eggs as well.

Photo by Reyes Garcia III.

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