Thread subject: Diptera.info :: parasitic wasp

Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-06-2005 06:20
#4

The wasps will not parasitse the ladybirds. I do not know if that happens, but in the worst case the ladybirds may recognise a parasited aphid and leave it alone. Still, I think they are usually such fierce feeders that they will hardly be stopped eating any aphid, parasitesed or not.