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debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
I found this 1/4 inch brown bug sucking the life out of a 3 day old Tiger ST caterpillar. There was another TST egg oviposited and that egg was emptied hollow by one of these tiny predators. I need to add him to my list of enemies as soon as I know what to call him.

*The triangular head has a proboscis used like a syringe. (Inserts into the tiny victim or tiny caterpillar eggs.)
*Along the sides of a tapered (or long triangular) body there are white markings.
*At the rear end is a hairlike loop.

Thank you in advance...

Deb

This message was edited Jun 1, 2007 4:40 PM