Posted by Tony Irwin on 08-07-2007 15:51
#7
Eric Fisher wrote:
Thaumatomyia are egg parasites. Probably those are eggs - of some other insect - and the Thaumatomyia is just doing its job.
I don't think so :|.
Thaumatomyia notata larvae are predators of root aphids, and I haven't heard of other species as egg parasites. In any case this little bundle of eggs would not be enough to sustain a
Thaumatomyia larva. I suspect that these are its own eggs, perhaps laid under stress?