Silk pulled back revealing larva of cabbage looper, <i>Trichoplusia ni</i>, parasitized by several hundred pale, maggotlike, wasp larvae (right) of <i>Copidosoma truncatellum</i>, a polyembryonic, internal parasite (parasitoid). At left is an unparasitized pupa of cabbage looper.
Silk pulled back revealing larva of cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni, parasitized by several hundred pale, maggotlike, wasp larvae (right) of Copidosoma truncatellum, a polyembryonic, internal parasite (parasitoid). At left is an unparasitized pupa of cabbage looper.
Credit: Earl R. Oatman