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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Arctic Parasitic Wasp

Hyposoter horticola

About

A slender parasitic wasp with a black body, orange legs, and long antennae. Females search for caterpillar hosts on tundra vegetation. The larva develops inside the host caterpillar, eventually killing it.

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Did You Know?

This wasp has been extensively studied as a model for understanding host-parasitoid population dynamics in changing Arctic ecosystems.