I'm not sure 'help' is necessarily the right word: wasps will capture caterpillars and feed them to their larvae.
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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.
Hey!I was looking for this answer myself. I don't know if these are caterpillars on your tomato plants (that is what I am experiencing), but according to the site referenced below, these white sacks are the pupae of the Braconid Wasp. The Braconid Wasp is a natural predator of hornworms (my type of caterpillar). Apparently, the wasp lays its eggs in the prey, and when the eggs hatch into larvae, they begin eating the hornworm's organs. The white sacks are actually the cocoons from which the wasps will emerge.Even though the caterpillar was eating my tomato plants, I feel really bad for it. I might put it out of its misery. I can't imagine something eating my insides when I'm alive!Source:http:/www.tammysrecipes.com/tomato_hornworms