Tag: tachinid fly

• Question of the Week – Tachinid Fly Eggs

  

  What is on the head and back of this leaffooted bug? The oblong, white objects on this leaffooted bug (Leptoglossus oppositus) are eggs of a parasitoid fly (Trichopoda pennipes), which will hatch and consume the leaffooted bug.  Usually when we discuss parasitoids in pest management we are referring to small wasps, but flies in the…

  Justin Ballew

  October 17, 2024

  Question of the Week

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