Jun 5, 2024
[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143674484]
Chalcidoid Wasp || Perilampus hyalinus
Observed in United States
No Conservation Status
seen from New Zealand
seen from Russia
seen from Latvia
seen from United States
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seen from Australia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from New Zealand
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Australia
seen from Spain
seen from Jamaica
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seen from Germany
seen from Panama
[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143674484]
Chalcidoid Wasp || Perilampus hyalinus
Observed in United States
No Conservation Status
Parasitoid chalcidoid wasp, Astichus longevittatus, Eulophidae
Photographed in France by coleomaniac
Chalcid Wasp (Brasema rhadinosa), female, taken April 12, 2025, in Georgia, US
Feast your eyes on some (okay-ish) pictures of this gorgeous woman!! She was quite the pain to photograph because she would not sit still ever. She did, however, stay wandering around the top of the same boardwalk post for 3 hours. I have no idea why, but she clearly liked that spot. It ended up being helpful because it allowed me to spend as much time as I needed trying to get decent pictures. A wasp as thin and flat as she is sucks to get in focus, but the effort was worth it! The pictures don't do her justice, but you can still see how pretty she is!
Euperilampus triangularisa, a member of the Chalcidoid Wasps
September 28, 2020
Southeastern Pennsylvania
@dweebpheles submitted: Very very intrigued by what I believe is a spicebush swallowtail caterpillar -> chrysalis, how it makes a silly little silk clothing hanger for itself. No ID'S needed for anything, except the last photo, if you can figure anything out?? My assumption is Eggs, but I couldn't find anything definite!! I know the photo quality isn't great, so if you're not able to, no biggie!! Location is Western NC, USA :)
All very cool, but I am most excited about the last photo! Those are parasitoid wasp pupae, possibly in the genue Eulophus or similar. Not positive what the lil green bits next to the black pupae are. But educated guess, it's the last of their poop they excreted as larvae before pupating.
More/closer photos here if you're curious what they look like up close.
Never seen anything like this guy before. Looks like a really small wasp almost. Very cute, and very polite while I took their photos. It's rainy and cold outside, so I'm not exactly sure how they got in and look so pristine about it, but I made the decision to leave them inside next to a little window they could get out from if they needed to.
What a precious lil angel. It's a chalcid wasp - the silly-shaped back legs are a good indicator. They're parasitoids, but I couldn't tell you which bug this fella parasitizes. That may have been where it came from, though? Emerged from another bug that came inside.
Chalcidoid wasp, Leucospis dorsigera, Leucospidae
Found throughout Europe, this species is a parasitoid of certain wasps and bees. Photos 1-4 show a female ovipositing her eggs into wood that contains larvae of a host species.
Photos 1-4 by birdingjulia, 5 by mammal, 6-9 by macrohunter_ls, and 10 by naturev
Encyrtid parasitoid wasp, Dicarnosis erythrocephala, Encyrtidae, Chalcidoidea
Some species of Encyrtid wasps exhibit a remarkable developmental phenomenon called polyembryony, in which a single egg multiplies clonally in the host and produces large numbers of identical adult wasps. Even more remarkably, some of the larvae are larger than the others and act in a similar way to the soldiers of eusocial insects, attacking any other wasp larvae already in the body of the host, and dying without reproducing (see: biological altruism).
Photographed in Arizona by froggy143