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some recent wasps

piggsypiggsy Registered Users Posts: 88 Big grins
edited April 26, 2016 in Holy Macro
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Variously on the E-P5 with Tokina AT-X 90mm F2.5 + Raynox / Tamron 180mm 3.5 Macro.

Last lot of orange tail mud/potters wasps are a pair that have been camping out on our rice flower bush for over a month now so lots of opportunity for getting decent shots with a background set up. The others were in a nearby abandoned lot that everything has now been cut down in repeatedly so there are pretty much no bugs left in it - used to support a huge population of different bugs.

One seems to have picked up a small parasite or something crawling under one of the plates in the tail in the second from the last one - looks like some similar kind of mite to the one you can just make out in #1 near the black mason wasp. Anyone know what that is likely to be?
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    StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited April 24, 2016
    Last 6 are nice!
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    Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,900 Major grins
    edited April 24, 2016
    Wonderful stuff- lovely wasp collection :)

    Think your parasite may be a Stylopid.

    Brian v.
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    piggsypiggsy Registered Users Posts: 88 Big grins
    edited April 24, 2016
    Lord Vetinari wrote: »
    Wonderful stuff- lovely wasp collection :)

    Think your parasite may be a Stylopid.

    Brian v.

    Thanks for the tip! I will take a look :D
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/piggsyface/
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    e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,378 Major grins
    edited April 24, 2016
    A great set.

    I can't make out morphology of the possible mite. I have never seen one in such an intrusive position.

    Harold
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    piggsypiggsy Registered Users Posts: 88 Big grins
    edited April 25, 2016
    e6filmuser wrote: »
    A great set.

    I can't make out morphology of the possible mite. I have never seen one in such an intrusive position.

    Harold

    Googling Stylopids brings up some very similar looking bugs - they crawl in between those kinds of overlapping plates on bugs and pupate in there.
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    e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,378 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2016
    piggsy wrote: »
    Googling Stylopids brings up some very similar looking bugs - they crawl in between those kinds of overlapping plates on bugs and pupate in there.

    That looks about right. So, not a mite. The mite on the leaf in the first image is a cryptostimatid or seed mite detritus-feeder.

    Harold
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