infinity
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I've been feeding my L1-L2 chinese with aphids from the garden until now but today i noticed about 3 dead with several 2-3mm wasps in the containers... I observed the wasps and they went crazy over some dead aphids but seemed to ignore the mantids... SO my questions are:
If it was the aphids infected, would the mantid suffer by eating them or would they be destroyed in the mantid's tract?
If they infect the mantids, did they come in via ooth or externally? - If by ooth, how come they made it to L2 and didn't just emerge from the ooth? - I have the ooth still and nothing non-mantid has emerged.
I put one of the wasps in with another mantid and it gobbled it up greedily and the wasp showed no sign of interest in the mantid
PLUS I often find *statued* blackfly/ aphids on the containers - as if they'd been frozen there on the spot - sounds like a parasitic infection but why would the mentid die as a consequence?
If it was the aphids infected, would the mantid suffer by eating them or would they be destroyed in the mantid's tract?
If they infect the mantids, did they come in via ooth or externally? - If by ooth, how come they made it to L2 and didn't just emerge from the ooth? - I have the ooth still and nothing non-mantid has emerged.
I put one of the wasps in with another mantid and it gobbled it up greedily and the wasp showed no sign of interest in the mantid
PLUS I often find *statued* blackfly/ aphids on the containers - as if they'd been frozen there on the spot - sounds like a parasitic infection but why would the mentid die as a consequence?