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19-07-2011, 08:48 PM
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| | | Dead Harlequin Clutching Hairy Egg
When I first came across this scene, I thought the Harlequin was mating with a very dead Female. How wrong I was to be thinking this, It seems to be a hairy egg, any idea whats going on here?  
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19-07-2011, 08:51 PM
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| | | Re: Dead Harlequin Clutching Hairy Egg
It's the egg sac of a parasitic wasp. I had a lot of 7 spot ladybirds in my garden with these. |
19-07-2011, 08:58 PM
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| | | Re: Dead Harlequin Clutching Hairy Egg
Its like alien the film where the parasite bursts out of the poor victim..  |
19-07-2011, 09:27 PM
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| | | Re: Dead Harlequin Clutching Hairy Egg
Nature can be cruel  ..Posie |
19-07-2011, 09:31 PM
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| | | Re: Dead Harlequin Clutching Hairy Egg
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Originally Posted by posie  Nature can be cruel ..Posie | Yes but its a harlequin and this is good it has predators.. |
19-07-2011, 09:54 PM
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| | | Re: Dead Harlequin Clutching Hairy Egg
But it must have suffered, which is sad
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19-07-2011, 10:16 PM
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| | | Re: Dead Harlequin Clutching Hairy Egg
Have I damaged the egg by removing the dead Harlequin?
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19-07-2011, 10:27 PM
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| | | Re: Dead Harlequin Clutching Hairy Egg
I found similar with a 7 spot ladybird in May.  |
19-07-2011, 10:29 PM
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| | | Re: Dead Harlequin Clutching Hairy Egg
Not an egg, but the cocoon of a larva of Dinocampus coccinellae, previously called Perilitis coccinae. Google it to discover its bizarre and, to us, cruel life cycle. It is using the paralysed but still alive ladybird as a shelter, which will eventually die. It is good that the parasite is beginning to use the Harlequin as prey. | | | |
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