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Hi, we had 10 cabbage white caterpillars and only 4 have turned to green chrysalis'. The other 6 had yellow wasp larvae sprout from them and then they eventually died. So, the pale yellow eggs are actually wasp larvae and they hatch out and look like flying ants.

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