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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

European Corn Borer Egg Parasitoid

Trichogramma ostriniae

About

A tiny egg parasitoid wasp native to Asia and introduced to North America for corn borer control. It searches corn leaves methodically for host eggs.

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Did You Know?

It preferentially attacks the European corn borer over most other moth species, making it highly targeted.