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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Gypsy Moth Parasite

Cotesia melanoscela

About

A small braconid introduced to North America to control the invasive gypsy moth. It attacks early-instar caterpillars and larvae emerge to pupate externally.

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Did You Know?

It was one of the first parasitoid wasps deliberately imported to North America for classical biological control in the early 1900s.