Cream-spotted ichneumon
Echthromorpha intricatoria
The cream-spotted ichneumon is a wasp from Australia and New Zealand. It is mostly black, with creamy spots along the sides of its tummy and bright orange legs and feelers.
Lives in
Australia and New Zealand, a common wasp in gardens
Wingspan
3 cm (1.2 in)
What does it eat?
Its young grow up inside the pupae of moths and butterflies and feed on them there.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 5 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 13 seconds
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
Cream-spotted ichneumon about 30 km/h (19 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The mother wasp has a long thin tube at the end of her body and uses it to put her eggs inside a moth or butterfly pupa.
2
It especially likes the pupae of the admiral butterfly family.
3
Its wings are clear like glass.
4
It is a common wasp in Australia and New Zealand.
you asked
Most asked questions about Cream-spotted ichneumon
?What does the cream-spotted ichneumon do?
The female lays her eggs inside moth and butterfly pupae, and the young wasps grow up in there.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Echthromorpha intricatoria
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Ichneumonidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Ichneumonidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Echthromorpha intricatoria (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 Leon Billows. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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