{"id":235,"date":"2011-12-15T23:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T07:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2011-12-15T23:11:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T07:11:53","slug":"jewel-wasps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Jewel wasps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer while hiking near Bald Hill we found a rose bush covered in strange mossy growths.\u00a0 I didn’t take a picture, but they looked like this:<\/p>\n

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Rose gall (photo from Wanderin' Weeta blog)<\/p><\/div>\n

After some research, we learned that they were “mossy rose galls”, inhabited by the larvae of the Diplolepis rosae <\/em>wasp:<\/p>\n

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Rose gall wasp, credit to hedgerowmobile.com<\/p><\/div>\n

John put the galls in a jar, and we forgot about them for four months.\u00a0 When John opened the jar today, imagine our surprise to find these beautiful creatures:<\/p>\n

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Female (top) and two males, taken with 20x magnification through John's dissecting scope.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Female close-up.<\/p><\/div>\n

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These are Jewel Wasps, Torymus bedeguaris<\/em>, which parasitize the gall wasp larvae – meta-parasites!\u00a0 No gall wasps hatched out, either because they were all parasitized or (more likely) because they were more sensitive to dessication as the galls dried out.<\/p>\n

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