Field observation and laboratory rearing indicate that Ooencyrtus kuwanai completes one spring and two and a partial third summer generation as a parasite of the gypsy moth in southern Connecticut. Parasitization has averaged 30% to 40%. This seems to be about the maximum that can be attained in medium-sized egg clusters.
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Philip B. Dowden (1961) studied this question.