I might not have seen many adult Ichneumon wasps this year but I was fascinated by the discovery of my first ever wasp pupa (An Ichneumon wasp pupa, 13 July).
And I’ve only very recently had verification that I did manage to spot one new Ichneumon species back in April this year. This is a female Ischnus inquisitorius, a wasp I’m having difficulty finding much information about. The Nature Conservation Imaging website reports that it’s ‘an ectoparasitoid of tortricid [a family of moths] pupae’ and the Wild Bristol website says it prefers well-vegetated areas like gardens and allotments, parks and cemeteries, presumably because these are the places where Tortricid moth larvae feed and pupate.
