Gasteruption minutum - Gasteruption minutum
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Species Description
Widespread and sparse in the South (only 28 records). It is severely under-recorded and probably a lot more common than records suggest. Habitat includes: Sunny locations with a good supply of hosts and Umbellifers such as gardens, parks, allotments, churchyards, wasteland, meadows, old quarries, woodland clearings etc. Life story: Females visit various solitary bees or wasp nests such as bee hotels, pushing her ovipositor into the nest, depositing her eggs on or near to the eggs of the host. When they hatch they feed on the grubs of the host as well as the stored food (pollen).