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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

European Corn Borer Braconid

Macrocentrus cingulum

About

A slender parasitoid wasp introduced to North America to control the European corn borer moth. It lays polyembryonic eggs that multiply inside the host.

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Did You Know?

A single egg can divide into up to 36 identical embryos inside one host caterpillar through polyembryony.