ichneumon fly

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   hymenopterous insect that resembles a wasp and whose larvae are parasitic on caterpillars and other insect larvae

   Broaderhymenopterous insect

   Part ofIchneumonidae

Questions about ichneumon fly

What does ichneumon fly mean?

ichneumon fly means "hymenopterous insect that resembles a wasp and whose larvae are parasitic on caterpillars and other insect larvae".

Is ichneumon fly a common word?

ichneumon fly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.