First, the wasp injects a single egg into the ladybug’s abdomen. Upon hatching, the larva eats away at the ladybug’s tissues for approximately three weeks, at which point it paralyzes the ladybug by ...

The area behind the head is black with a white border and two white converging ... it is too big for its soft shell, then it molts. Ladybug larvae usually molt through four instars, or larval ...