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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Steelblue Ichneumon

Lissopimpla excelsa

About

A metallic blue-black ichneumon wasp native to Australia. It is an important parasitoid of pest caterpillars including the introduced cabbage moth.

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Did You Know?

It was deliberately introduced to New Zealand to help control pest moth populations in agriculture.