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Anastatus females lay their eggs into FSB eggs
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Anastatus females lay their eggs into FSB eggs
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The female Anastatus takes a few minutes to lay its egg
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Anastatus inspecting a FSB egg to see if its already parasitised
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Male Anastatus (left) and female Anastatus
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Male Anastatus is smaller and more "wasp like"
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Parasitised FSB eggs with Anastatus wasps about to emerge
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Note the Anastatus egg removed from a silkworm egg to show its size
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Late laraval stage of Anastatus in silkworm egg
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Pre Adult stage developing in silkworm egg
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Late adult stage developing in silkworm egg
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Anastatus adult chewing out of a silkworm egg
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This ant species looks similar to Anastatus
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Anastatus let go in the glasshouse quickly found the bug eggs
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Anastatus inspecting a bug egg to see if already parasitised
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Bug bags containing live bugs and bug eggs used for collecting parasitoids
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Anastatus on a bug egg inside a "bug bag".
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This Anastatus species was found in the Dunoon area
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Silkworm eggs parasitised by Anastatus are glued to cards.
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Anastatus release cards ready for despatch
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If the weather is going to be fine unprotected cards are easy to put out
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Covers are prefered to give good protection from rain. Wasp keep emerging for a week.
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Two litre milk cartons are very easy to use
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Anastatus wasp escape holes in the silkworm eggs
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Gryon is another parasitoid that also goes for FSB eggs
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An FSB egg parasitised by Gryon has a distinctive dark band
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Gryon wasp about to emerge from FSB egg
