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A good demonstration of how absurdly small insects can get. I was looking at a relatively small (2.5 mm) pteromalid wasp and noticed something stuck to its wing. It was an even smaller wasp.

22/10/26, 5:34 pm91 reposts414 likes

CalyxGoblin 🔞

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I'm a total layperson but I adore the incredible variety of wasps in the world. This is lovely stuff.

Chip

@chippixl.bsky.social

wasps all the way down

ascalaphid

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the smaller wasp appears to be a fairy wasp in the genus Erythmelus but probably too shriveled to ID to species, assuming it even belongs to a described species.

Times

@timeschu.bsky.social

Always crazy to me that there are so many kinds of arthropod in the world that if you see a weird one and take a picture there's a relatively decent chance you're the first person to do that, or yours is just the best taken. There should really be a website for people to just upload weird bug pics.

ascalaphid

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it's pretty ancient and janky but bugguide.net is more or less that, at least for the US and Canada

bugguide.netWelcome to BugGuide.Net!An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

ascalaphid

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on every wasp there's a smaller wasp 🎵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WEZ...

youtube.comInside Every BirdYouTube video by Mark Growden - Topic

[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁

@thatsawkward.bsky.social

♪ and on that wing there was a wasp a fair wasp, a fairy wasp *inhales* wasp on the wing and the wing on the wasp and the wasp on the tag and the tag on the pin and the pin under the mi-cro-scope~ ♪