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ICHNEUMONIDAE (a family of ichneumon wasps)

Date: 24 February 1981
Location: North Wiltshire, England
State: Larva
Record Summary: Larva, on spider, indoors
Associated organism: on live opisthosoma of Araneae
Identification Notes: "Ambush" parasite: the larva waits until the spider has grown to a certain size then consumes it in one day.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Spider with parasitic ichneumon larva - antero-dorsal magnified 500 by 378 pixels
naked eye photograph Spider with parasitic ichneumon larva - dorsal - magnified - best picture 404 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Spider with parasitic ichneumon larva - dorsal - magnified 500 by 409 pixels
naked eye photograph Spider with parasitic ichneumon larva - dorsal - magnified 500 by 496 pixels
naked eye photograph Spider with parasitic ichneumon larva - lateral - magnified 500 by 313 pixels

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