Male

Female

Length: 11-14mm

Egg	Larva	Pupa	Adult
?	?	?	May - September (Earliest: 20.4)

Biotopes:	Hedge Rows	Peat Bogs and Mires
Microhabitat: (Larva)	Eutrophic Pools
Food: (Larva)	Submerged Plant Litter
Food: (Adult) 90% Nectar 10% Pollen	Anthriscus sylvestris Nectar	Heracleum sphondylium Nectar	Cirsium vulgare Nectar	Jacobaea vulgaris Nectar
	Valeriana officinalis Nectar	Filipendula ulmaria Nectar	Crataegus Nectar	Salix cinerea Nectar
Possible Parasitoids:	Several Ichneumonidae Larvae

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