MYN / Joao P. Burini / Chalcidid parasitoid wasp (possibly Conura sp.) Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Composite image Meetyourneighbours.net project.

Pete Oxford / Chalcid Wasp (Chalcididae) group parasitizing butterfly pupa, Tiputini Biodiversity Station, adjacent to Yasuni National Park, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador

Piotr Naskrecki / Chalcid Wasp (Chalcididae) parasite newly emerged from butterfly chrysalis, Sipaliwini, Surinam

Piotr Naskrecki / Chalcid Wasp (Chalcididae) parasite emerging from butterfly chrysalis, Sipaliwini, Surinam

John Abbott / Chalcid Wasp (Brachymeria sp.), Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas, USA. (Chalcididae). Small reproductions only

John Abbott / Chalcid wasp (Brachymeria sp), Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas, USA. (Chalcididae).

Gil Wizen / Chalcidid wasp (Chalcididae) preparing to inject eggs into a Hawkmoth (Sphingidae) caterpillar, Mindo, Ecuador.