There is a lot of good photographers of insects. Only a few people study hymenoptera parasitica so they can write the proper names to those tiny insects that fly around butterfly caterpillars. Only you have had that knowledge and still the time to sit and wait, ... congratulations!!
Thank you for this amazing video. I have this caterpillar parasitized by C. sibyllarum, which I have confirmed thanks to this video. 12 individuals emerged.
Very interesting video. What sense does it make that the caterpillar stays alive for the whole time of the development of the parasitic wasp inside its cocoon?
+Rüdiger Hartmann Indeed a good question... a lot has still to be discovered between the interaction of host and parasitoids. Amazing how this has developed over millions of years. Some parasitoids, like this one, became specialist on one host! We keep on observing in order to better understand all factors influencing butterfly populations.
+Rüdiger Hartmann If the caterpillar dies, the parasitoid dies too. Nature has make them to evolve so the caterpillar can resist someone else eating him, ... but not the "brain"
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+Rafael Carbonell Hello Rafael, in the video one can see, that the caterpillar still is alive when the parasite is hatching. I think, that the parasite development inside its pupae does not depends on the availability of a surviving caterpillar. Rüdiger
+Rüdiger Hartmann Hi, Sometimes the still living host protects the cocoons of Cotesia against hyperparasitoids who wants to parasitize the cocoons of Cotesia, like in this video ua-cam.com/video/vMG-LWyNcAs/v-deo.html But we also have found Cotesia cocoons from Euphydryas aurinia on a rock, and the caterpillar had crawled away. These Cotesia's emerged without a problem... this video will come later.
Excellent video. Great work.
There is a lot of good photographers of insects. Only a few people study hymenoptera parasitica so they can write the proper names to those tiny insects that fly around butterfly caterpillars. Only you have had that knowledge and still the time to sit and wait, ... congratulations!!
Thank you for this amazing video. I have this caterpillar parasitized by C. sibyllarum, which I have confirmed thanks to this video. 12 individuals emerged.
Thanks for this amazing vedio.
Brilliant captures
Q dò dessas lagartinha....
Very interesting video. What sense does it make that the caterpillar stays alive for the whole time of the development of the parasitic wasp inside its cocoon?
+Rüdiger Hartmann
Indeed a good question... a lot has still to be discovered between the interaction of host and parasitoids. Amazing how this has developed over millions of years. Some parasitoids, like this one, became specialist on one host!
We keep on observing in order to better understand all factors influencing butterfly populations.
+Rüdiger Hartmann
If the caterpillar dies, the parasitoid dies too. Nature has make them to evolve so the caterpillar can resist someone else eating him, ... but not the "brain"
+Rafael Carbonell
Hello Rafael,
in the video one can see, that the caterpillar still is alive when the parasite is hatching. I think, that the parasite development inside its pupae does not depends on the availability of a surviving caterpillar.
Rüdiger
+Rüdiger Hartmann
Hi,
Sometimes the still living host protects the cocoons of Cotesia against hyperparasitoids who wants to parasitize the cocoons of Cotesia, like in this video ua-cam.com/video/vMG-LWyNcAs/v-deo.html
But we also have found Cotesia cocoons from Euphydryas aurinia on a rock, and the
caterpillar had crawled away. These Cotesia's emerged without a problem... this video will come later.
+Rüdiger Hartmann
Sorry, now I know what you mean and Filming VarWild has answered yet!
I'm waiting for the day something parasitizes the wasp larvae
I raised the catterpilars 3 times and had no problems , probably because i raised them from egg at home,
Why's it covered in its own droppings? Is it a purposeful thing?
Em vez de uma linda borboleta virou um saco de vespas q injustiça
Con ong nó đẻ trứng vào trong con sâu và nó ăn sâu lớn lên.
That catterpilla is all messed up