Identificaciones de louisnastasi

Ha! Wheee! 💯 Microseris Stem Gall Wasp gall on Microseris douglasii! And- growing among Tidytips! We jumped up and down and told everyone we met! Oh wait, no one else is here.
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Collected from a gall on Silphium asteriscus var. latifolium.

Gall was collected on 3 Oct 2023. Two Eurytoma sp. parasitoids emerged 25 Apr 2024. The gall and parasitoid adults were frozen (my incorrect assumption that they were inducers). I waited a week and fearing they were dead, and not wanting them to deteriorate, I opened the gall. I found eight adult inducers and five adult Eurytoma parasitoids. Additionally I found one larva that did not develop. All were dead but all of the adults appeared fully mature and several had begun tunneling out of the gall.

Observation for gall: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/185363470

Observation for host plant: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/185363280

Observation for Eurytoma parasitoids found inside the gall: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/212771463

Observation for undeveloped larva: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/212771469