Orange Braconid Wasp

Fields, meadows, and gardens with abundant flowering plants and host insects

Adults feed on nectar and pollen; larvae are idiobiont ectoparasitoids of wood-boring beetle larvae or lepidopteran larvae

Diurnal flyers that use long ovipositors to probe through substrate to find and paralyze host larvae before laying eggs

Highly beneficial as biological control agents for agricultural and forest pests; generally harmless to humans as they lack a defensive sting