Insects of Southern Australian Broadacre Farming Systems - Grains ...

Lifecycle
Trichogrammatidae, Scelionidae and Mymaridae are
families of very small parasitic wasps that attack the
eggs of insects and spiders.
Wasp parasitoids have a lifecycle that coincides with
their host. They lay their eggs inside the egg of a host
(e.g. moth egg). The wasp larvae feed inside the host
egg until maturity, when one or more new parasitic
wasps emerge from the destroyed egg.
Confused with/similar to
They are confused with other wasp species and are
hard to distinguish in the paddock. Identification often
requires specialist knowledge.
More often, they go unnoticed due to their small size
(usually