Pending ID – Anthelidae
#2
#4
Mid November 2013
New Town Rivulet Reserve, Lenah Valley
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#5
Mid October 2010
Forestier Peninsula
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#6
Mid July 2013
Chaunceyvale, Bagdad
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Cocoons coating a destroyed caterpillar. A couple of the cocoons still seem to house pupae, and you can see a waist, so presumably the caterpillar has been parasitised by a wasp. The eggs are injected inside, then hatch. The larvae eat the living caterpillar. When the caterpillar is close to dying the larvae then leave to mature into adult wasps.
#7
Mid April 2019
Liffey Falls track
Anthelid caterpillar covered in wasp cocoons.
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#8
Early January 2014
Miena, Central Highlands
Covered in mites.
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#9
Late September 2014
Binalong Bay
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#10
Late May 2017
Knocklofty Reserve, Nipaluna/Hobart
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#11
Pteroloera amplicornis. ?
Late February 2016
Knocklofty Reserve, Nipaluna/Hobart
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#12
Mid January 2018
Knocklofty Reserve, Hobart
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#13
Early October 2020
Bridport
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#14
Early October 2020
Bridport
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#15. Anthelid caterpillar covered with parasitic wasp cocoons.
Late May 2021
Douglas Apsley Reserve
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#16. Early July 2021
Musselroe Bay
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#17 Early October 2022
Bridport
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#18 Caterpillar skewered onto rush leaf
Early January 2026
Penstock Lagoon
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