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Insect indentification

carole_2356carole_2356 Posts: 5
in Problem solving
Hello. I’ve just found this in one of my potatoes. It looks like an ant to me, but I didn’t think ants fed on potatoes! So is it an ant or something else? Hope that someone knows. 

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    edited September 2020
    I suspect it is a parasitic wasp which has emerged after growing from an egg laid inside whatever made the hole in the potato, which it ate from the inside  A complicated explanation, but that's all I can think of. :)

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  • carole_2356carole_2356 Posts: 5
    Hi BobTheGardener. Thank you for answering. A parasitic wasp...🙄....that makes so much more sense than my ‘ant’! 🙂
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