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| Hepialidae (family) IMMATURE | CarbonAI | 18 Oct 2026 | |
| Unverified | VanessaC | 18 Oct 2026 |
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This wasp emerged from a caterpillar pupa about 6 weeks after the caterpillar went underground. Unfortunately, I didn't get a photo of the caterpillar before it started to disappear but it was a pale brown stick like caterpillar that looked like this: https://tasmanianinsectfieldguide.com/hexapoda/insectsoftasmanialepidoptera/caterpillars-by-colour-2/light-brown-caterpillars/ By the time I got a photo it was burrowing and looked like it was starting to develop a hard shell. After the wasp emerged, I unearthed the pupa case and found a bit of lightly clumped soil with a mostly transparent shell with a round hole in it.
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