The cream-striped darwin wasp does not hibernate in the winter, instead, it disappears for a few months in the late spring and early summer. Instead of depositing their eggs in word-borne holes, females use caterpillars. The female lays her eggs inside the caterpillars of different species of nocturnal moths.
Cream-striped darwin wasp is a type of parasitoid wasp that belongs to the family Ichneumonidae. It is known to parasitize caterpillars of various moth species.
Habitat is open or semi-open grassland and heath.
Adult drinks nectar.
Larva eats internal tissues of caterpillars of tiger moths, noctuids, giant silkworm moths, and satyrids.
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