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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Common Pimpline Wasp

Pimpla hypochondriaca

About

A stout black parasitoid wasp that attacks moth and butterfly pupae. It is one of the most frequently encountered ichneumonids in Europe.

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Did You Know?

Females inject venom that permanently paralyzes the host pupa before laying an egg on it.