Common hover fly parasitoid wasp
Diplazon laetatorius
The common hover fly parasitoid wasp is a small, slim wasp. It has an unusual way of raising its young. The mother lays her eggs on the eggs or babies of hoverflies, and her own young grow up inside them.
Lives in
Many parts of the world, wherever hoverflies live
What does it eat?
The grown-up wasps drink flower nectar. Their larvae grow inside hoverfly larvae and feed on them.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Common hover fly parasitoid wasp about 22 km/h (14 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Grown-ups like the flowers of the carrot family best, such as wild carrot and cow parsley.
2
Its young live inside a hoverfly larva and come out later as grown-up wasps.
3
It was first described in 1781 by the scientist Johan Christian Fabricius.
you asked
Most asked questions about Common hover fly parasitoid wasp
?What does the hover fly parasitoid wasp eat?
The adults drink nectar. The young grow inside hoverfly larvae.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Diplazon laetatorius
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1781
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Ichneumonidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Ichneumonidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Diplazon laetatorius (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Donald Hobern. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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