Cotesia ruficrus (Haliday 1834) (Family Braconidae)


Male

Female

Length: 2-3.2mm
Egg Larva Pupa Adult
? ? ? (Earliest: 2.8)

Biotopes:
Hedge Rows
Food:
(Larva)

Several Pieridae

Melitaea cinxia Larva

Many Noctuidae

Spilosoma lubricipeda

Plutella xylostella Larva

Ostrinia nubilalis Larva

Malacosoma neustria
Possible Food:
(Larva)

Crambidae

Other Erebidae

Gelechiidae

Geometridae

Other Noctuidae

Tortricidae
Food:
(Adult)

Heracleum sphondylium Nectar

Tanacetum vulgare Nectar


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