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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

European Corn Borer Parasite

Macrocentrus grandii

About

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

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Did You Know?

A single egg divides into up to 30 genetically identical larvae inside the host through polyembryony.