“…Some variation in the ability of indigenous parasitoids to develop in and abort H. halys eggs has previously been observed in a number of field and laboratory studies (Abram et al, 2014;Cornelius et al, 2016a, b;Herlihy et al, 2016;Ogburn et al, 2016;Dieckhoff et al, 2017;Konopka et al, 2019;Tognon et al, 2017Tognon et al, , 2019Abram et al, 2014;Haye et al, 2015b;Abram et al, 2016;Abram et al, 2017b). However, laboratory studies have either been restricted in taxonomic breadth, and within-species genetic variation (e.g., Abram et al, 2014Abram et al, , 2016Konopka et al, 2018Konopka et al, , 2020Haye et al, 2015b), or have lacked direct behavioural observations of parasitoids and unexposed control egg masses to relate levels of acceptance to developmental success and egg abortion (e.g., Tognon et al, 2017Tognon et al, , 2019. In field studies, because most ovipositions by native parasitoids are unsuccessful (Abram et al, 2014(Abram et al, , 2016(Abram et al, , 2017b, the true incidence of H. halys egg attack by genetically variable pools of native parasitoids and how it might explain variation in H. halys egg mortality is still mostly unclear (Haye et al, 2015b).…”