Female Ovipositing on Pteridium aquilinum

Larva on Pteridium aquilinum

Length: 8-11mm

Egg	Larva	Pupa	Adult
?	(Earliest: 16.7)	?	May - September (Earliest: 4.6)

Biotopes:	Spruce Forest	Hedge Rows
Food: (Larva) (Oligophagous)	Pteridium aquilinum	Dryopteris filix-mas
Food: (Adult)	Heracleum sphondylium Nectar, Pollen
Parasitoids:	Cubocephalus anatorius Larva
Other Possible Parasitoids:	Many Ichneumonidae Larvae	Several Braconidae Larvae	Several Tachinidae Larvae

Nature Spot: Strongylogaster multifasciata
Plant Parasites of Europe: Strongylogaster multifasciata

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