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Table 8. Emergence of flies and Ichneumonidae spp. from puparia of Tetanocera ferruginea collected near Ithaca, New York (from Foote 1999).

		No. of flies
No. of puparia collected	Date (in 1958)	emerged	No. of wasps emerged
45	28 February	33	7
15	30 March	7	5
21	2 April	11	7
18	3 April	12	3
62	5 April	45	13
TOTAL: 161		108	35