Picture of a slide mounted tiny wasp with wings outstretched. Its body is yellow-grey, head is at the top of picture with antennae projecting upwards, and wings to either side of body are part-shaded towards their middle and the wings have fringe hairs.

Slide mounted female Encarsia citrina parasitoid wasp of the Aphelinidae found under pine trees in Brede High Woods on 8th October.

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a tiny wasp with a yellow head that has a red spot at the top, a yellow-buff thorax, and banded brown and yellow abdomen. Its fringed wings are outstretched either side of the body, and they are partially shaded toward their middles.

A beautiful female Encarsia citrina wasp of the Aphelinidae found under pines in Brede High Woods this morning.

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Side view of a dark coloured wasp with shaded legs, its wings are held vertically above body and have a smoky patch in their basal half

A male Centrodora amoena wasp of the Aphelinidae found in the old meadow at Great Dixter at the end of August when it was warmer than today.

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Small dark-bodied wasp with part shaded wings held above body, its head and antennae are to the right. On the far right of picture is a tiny yellow wasp with narrow wings with a long fringe, the tiny wasp is also facing to the right.

A 0.8mm long male Centrodora amoena wasp of the Aphelinidae next to a female Megaphragma noyesi wasp of the Trichogrammatidae. Both were found in the old meadow at Great Dixter this morning.

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A damaged female Centrodora acridiphaga parasitoid wasp of the Aphelinidae found in the old meadow at Great Dixter this morning.

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a tiny transparent wasp; it's head had a greenish eye and is to the left of picture, it's reduced wings are held above body

A beautiful 0.6mm long female Centrodora livens found in the meadow at Great Dixter this morning. Wings are more reduced than on any other individual of this species that I've found previously, but the only other possibility is C.danica which is unlikely.

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tiny black wasp with a yellow abdomen; its paddle-shaped wings are held vertically above body, and its legs are darkened near to the body and pale further from the body.

A female Aphelinus abdominalis parasitoid wasp of the Aphelinidae found in the meadow at Great Dixter.

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yellow bodied wasp with extensive dark markings, its fringed wings are held vertically above body and have their lower halves grey shaded, head and antennae are to the right

A female Encarsia citrina parasitoid wasp of the Aphelinidae found in the garden birch tree this afternoon.

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Side view of a tiny translucent white, slightly orange wasp with bright yellow eyes that have a dark purple spot where you are looking straight down the ommatidia. She sits on a blade of grass where, at this magnification individual plant cells are just about visible and some blurry white spots in the foreground, which are the stomata. The wasp is licking up some sugar water which I put there so she is occupied and won't fly away. The background is a blur of shades of petrol.

0.8mm tiny Aphelinidae wasp (Centrodora sp.?) I found in some hay last autumn

Single shot using Mitutoyo MPlan APO10X on a tube lens with variable aperture on a mirrorless aps-c camera.
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black-ish female wasp with striped black and yellow legs, wings held above body

A female Aphelinus chaonia parasitoid wasp of the Aphelinidae found on the salt marsh of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve at the end of September when the weather was better than today!

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