Mastodawn

Here's a different male showing off his unfurled antennal setae, chemically tuned to pick up pheromones from females. #wasps #eurytoma #chalcidoidea #antennae

Colin Purrington May 21

Newly-ecolosed male chalcid wasp (Eurytoma sp.) using its forelegs to remove the pupal sheath from one of its antennae. The long setae on each flagellomere will fluff up to give the antennae a bottle-brush look. From eastern redbud seeds. #wasp #chalcidoidea #hymenoptera #eurytoma #insects #nature #entomology #macro

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Colin Purrington May 7

Here's a close-up of a male Eurytoma. It's the most common chalcid species emerging from my cache of beetle-infested redbud seeds. #inaturalist #eurytoma #wasps https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/354257214

Genus Eurytoma

Eurytoma from Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA on April 24, 2026 at 02:09 PM by Colin Purrington. Emerged from an eastern redbud seed collected in 2025 and stored inside a gel cap.

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