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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Horse Chestnut Leafminer Parasitoid

Pnigalio agraules

About

A small metallic-green ectoparasitoid wasp that attacks leafminer larvae inside leaf mines. It has a broad host range across many leafminer species.

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Did You Know?

It is one of the few natural enemies that attacks the invasive horse chestnut leafminer in Europe.