Friday, July 29, 2005
My Friends de Parasitoid

The truncatellum of Copidosoma is the name of my new friend. Perhaps. In any case, some wasp looks like to have assembled in the fight against loopers of col.
I perhaps minimisó the number of them (the loopers) who I killed yesterday. In fact I took five or seises of them, most of who I sent in the street during a time of the high traffic. They were broken gradually in the car tires and took under the street.
I in the morning passed time this hunting for more, but I found only a pair of polillas of the adult, one of who I it captured and stomped.
How he is violent I have turned for defense of my garden!
But then I discovered this crisálidas underneath a leaf. And I online recognized its condition stirred up of the reading on them. It looks like that this looper of col she is the victim of a wasp, that puts its eggs in the crisálidas ones. The caterpillar will not become one polilla. And more from these wasps they will emerge from the crisálidas ones. Go next and you above compare little circle at left in picture above (and yes that is my eye at right) with that one in this other Web site that cultivates an orchard:
http://cals.arizona.edu/maricopa/garden/html/t-tips/bugs/looper.htm

Incidently, I constructed to espantapájaros, using an old t-shirt of Krusty the Klown for face. Impressive.