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While beautiful to look at through a microscope, these tiny wasps are also killers of the most resourceful kind. When we think of wasps we tend to imagine a yellow and black striped insect with a ...

The white capsules on its back are the pupal stage of the tiny wasp. Braconid larvae fed on the insides of this hornworm, have now completed that feeding, and are preparing to emerge as tiny wasps.

The cicada killer is one of the largest wasps in North America. Adults are approximately 1 and 1/8 to 1 and 5/8 inches long, very robust, with a black body ... overwinter as larvae in the soil ...