Toothed tiger ichneumon
Amblyteles armatorius
The toothed tiger ichneumon is a large wasp with a black head and a yellow and black striped tummy. Its stripes are a trick to scare away birds.
Lives in
Most of Europe, the Near East and parts of southern Asia, in meadows, hedges and forest edges
Length
1.2 to 1.6 cm (0.47 to 0.63 in)
What does it eat?
The grown-ups drink nectar and eat pollen from flowers. The mother lays her eggs inside moth caterpillars, and the babies feed on the caterpillar from the inside.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2.5 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 17 seconds⚡moves 380 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Toothed tiger ichneumon 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
Its feelers alone are about 9 millimetres long.
2
In summer it likes to visit flowers like wild carrot and cow parsley.
3
The grown-up wasps live through the winter and come out again in spring.
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Most asked questions about Toothed tiger ichneumon
?What does the toothed tiger ichneumon eat?
The adults eat nectar and pollen. Its babies grow up inside moth caterpillars.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Amblyteles armatorius
- Named by
- Forster, 1771
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Ichneumonidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Ichneumonidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Amblyteles armatorius (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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