“…About 10 years ago it was discovered that the eggs of one of the species in the genus Stenozygum, the variegated caper bug (CB) S. coloratum (Klug, 1845), are parasitized by Ooencyrtus pityocampae Mercet, 1921 (OP) (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) (Mizrachi, 2006). This parasitoid wasp is well known as one of the commonest natural enemies of the pine processionary moth (PPM) Thaumetopoea pityo campa Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775/ T. wilkinsoni Tams, 1924 (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) species complex (Battisti, 1989;Tsankov, 1990;Kitt & Schmidt, 1993;Schmidt et al, 1999Schmidt et al, , 1997, a major pest of pine forests throughout the Mediterranean basin (Wilkinson, 1926;Battisti, 1988;Halperin, 1990;Carus, 2004;Kanat et al, 2005;Jacquet et al, 2013;Tamburini et al, 2013). Our preliminary study of OP emerging from CB eggs indicated that these eggs serve as alternative hosts for OP populations in spring and summer, when PPM eggs are absent.…”