I have mostly seen Ichneumon wasps attacking the caterpillar and Chalcid wasps emerging out of Pupae. Also seen few flies laying eggs on butterfly and moth caterpillars and spiders attacking the egg. Microbial infection affects egg, caterpillar and pupa stages and once affected the color changes to black followed by noticeable shrinkage in size.
Kishen On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Krushnamegh Kunte <[email protected]>wrote: > > > different parasitoids infect various early stages of butterflies. there is > no time when a butterfly early stage is not vulnerable to one or the other > kind of parasitoid, except perhaps in the last days of pupae. and then > different parasitoids kill their host and emerge in different stages. it's > really parasitoid-specific. > > At 4:39 AM -0700 8/25/10, Min Sb wrote: > > > > at which stage of life cycle of butterfly that a parasite like a wasp > infests ? > an egg can be infested with a wasp or a caterpillar in early stages gets > infested ? when does the parasite shows itself out ? an egg stage or early > or > late caterpillar stage ? ............milind bhakare > > > > -- > > > Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD > > Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Kronforst Lab) > FAS Center for Systems Biology > Harvard University > 52 Oxford St > Northwest Lab Room 458.40-3 > Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. > > Ph: (617) 496-0078 > Cell: (512) 577-1370 > Fax: (617) 495-2196 > Email: [email protected] > Other emails: [email protected], [email protected] > > Personal website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm > Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ > Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/krushnamegh > > > -- Enjoy
