{"id":2775,"date":"2025-08-05T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/?p=2775"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:12:31","slug":"2025-08-tiny-braconid-wasp-mimicking-an-ant-es","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/es\/posts\/2025-08-tiny-braconid-wasp-mimicking-an-ant-es\/","title":{"rendered":"Taladros de madera y disfraces de hormiga: La avispa brac\u00f3nida Spathius"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Spathius<\/em> es un gran grupo de casi 400 especies de diminutas avispas brac\u00f3nidas (<em>Braconidae<\/em>) que cumplen un papel clave en la protecci\u00f3n de los bosques y cultivos. Con menos de un cent\u00edmetro de largo, son famosas por poseer un largu\u00edsimo taladro en forma de aguja en el abdomen, el cual usan para cazar larvas de escarabajos ocultas bajo la corteza de los \u00e1rboles. Para encontrar a sus presas, la avispa camina sobre los troncos escuchando vibraciones diminutas y oliendo pistas qu\u00edmicas. Una vez que ubica a la larva, usa su aguja para atravesar la madera s\u00f3lida, paralizar al insecto y depositar sus huevos. \u00a1Lo m\u00e1s sorprendente es que esta avispa se parece much\u00edsimo a una hormiga! Este h\u00e1bil disfraz enga\u00f1a a las aves para que piensen que es una hormiga agresiva y no la molesten. Como sus larvas eliminan de forma natural a las plagas, los agricultores ecol\u00f3gicos las consideran verdaderas aliadas. Me top\u00e9 con esta delicada belleza mientras tomaba fotos en el l\u00edmite de la selva amaz\u00f3nica en Puyo, Ecuador, donde se detuvo el tiempo suficiente para dejarme capturar sus incre\u00edbles detalles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spathius es un gran grupo de casi 400 especies de diminutas avispas brac\u00f3nidas (Braconidae) que cumplen un papel clave en 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