I'm not sure 'help' is necessarily the right word: wasps will capture caterpillars and feed them to their larvae.
The relationship between wasp eggs and caterpillars is an example of parasitism. In this relationship, female wasps lay their eggs inside or on the body of a caterpillar. The wasp larvae then feed on the caterpillar's tissues, often leading to the caterpillar's death as they develop. This interaction benefits the wasp at the expense of the caterpillar.
The cast of The Wasp and the Caterpillar - 2010 includes: Danny Ashok Wendy MacLennan
Small wasp larvae are parasitoids of caterpillars, meaning they develop by feeding on caterpillars from the inside. The female wasp lays her eggs inside the caterpillar, and the hatched larvae consume the caterpillar's body tissues until they are ready to pupate. This relationship benefits the wasp by providing a food source and can be harmful to the caterpillar as it results in its eventual death.
yes but that doesn't mean it is dangerous to humans.
I think the caterpillar is prey. For it is small.
Red on a chrysalis might be a bacterial infection caused with a caterpillar is raised in captivity and is exposed to condensation. The red might also be the left over organic material excreted by a butterfly as it emerges from the cocoon.
The food chain would go, milkweed, monarch caterpillar, wasp.
Recently scientists found that a solitary ground-nesting wasp, the European beewolf wasp, harbors Streptomyces bacteria on its antennae and that the wasp uses these bacterial symbionts to protect the wasp larvae against pathogenic fungi.This would be a commensal relationship, where the wasps benefit, but the bacteria are not affected one way or the other.
I think a caterpillar is 3 inches long, or 4.
I'm not sure 'help' is necessarily the right word: wasps will capture caterpillars and feed them to their larvae.
I think the jaws
A slender, black flying insect with transparent wings, a long ovipositor and red legs sounds like a banded caterpillar parasite wasp. It is also known as the Ichneumon wasp.