Male	Female
Laying Egg on Yponomeuta padella

Length: 4.5-12mm;
Forewing Length: 3-11.6mm

Egg	Larva	Pupa	Adult
?	?	?	May - October (Earliest: 17.3) (Winter)

Attack Chemicals
Amines	Histamine, Noradrenaline, Serotonin
Hydrolases	Phospholipase
Protective Chemicals
Acids	Hyaluronic
Repellent Chemicals
Peptides	Apamin, Melittin

Biotopes:	Hedge Rows	Spruce Forest	Beech Forest	Heath and Moorland
Food: (Larva)	Several Pieridae	Aglais urticae Pupa	Several Erebidae Pupae	Many Geometridae Pupae
	Many Noctuidae Pupae	Many Tortricidae Pupae	Yponomeuta evonymella Pupa	Yponomeuta padella
	Psyche casta Pupa	Taleporia tubulosa Pupa	Synanthedon formicaeformis Pupa	Synanthedon myopaeformis Pupa
	Anthophila fabriciana Pupa	Depressaria radiella Pupa	Carcina quercana Pupa	Dioryctria abietella Pupa
	Zygaena trifolii Pupa	Nola confusalis Pupa	Ostrinia nubilalis Pupa	Ypsolopha parenthesella Pupa
	Malacosoma neustria Pupa
Possible Food: (Larva)	Lycaenidae Pupae	Argyresthiidae Pupae	Coleophoridae Pupae	Drepanidae Pupae
	Other Elachistidae Pupae	Other Erebidae Pupae	Gelechiidae Pupae	Other Geometridae Pupae
	Gracillariidae Pupae	Lasiocampidae Pupae	Other Noctuidae Pupae	Other Nolidae Pupae
	Notodontidae Pupae	Prodoxidae Pupae	Other Psychidae Pupae	Pyralidae Pupae
	Other Sesiidae Pupae	Sphingidae Pupae	Other Tortricidae	Other Yponomeutidae Pupae
	Other Ypsolophidae Pupae
Food: (Adult)	Heracleum sphondylium Nectar

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