Montana's Huckleberry (Vaccinium globulare) Mystery: Pollinators, Pests, and Potential Threats

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Sixty individual insects were collected from the V. globulare fruits in the two years. Of these, all sawfly larvae, four eupelmid wasps, and one braconid wasp were dissected out of damaged or undeveloped berries, while the rest were collected from the surface of the fruit.

• Insects found inside dissected berries
• Insects collected from the surface of the berries

Eupelmidae wasp dissected out of fruit.