Sol Parra Santos

Did you know longhorn beetles can mimic wasps? What a surprise when I found this beauty in one of my Malaise traps! This little guy has very thin, short elytra and an amazing wasp-like appearance. This is Odontocera, probably Odontocera zeteki, from Gamboa, Panama.

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We brought it back to the lab, it pupated, and for the last month, I’ve been checking on it. Just when I thought it had died, surprise — an adult White Witch moth emerged yesterday! We’ve now shown the correlation between the larvae and the adult, though the host plant remains to be defined..

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To kick off my account, let’s take a look at this amazing find! During our recent trip to Cerro Hoya in Panama with The Mothbox Crew, we discovered a huge larvae that was believed (or thought) to be the larvae of the Watch Witch moth...

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