Nutrition
The adult Pelecinid wasp's diet is fairly straight forward and un-noteworthy. The adult will feed mainly on flower nectar found in the wasps deciduous forest biome (Kate Redmond). Pelecinid wasps also eat pollen, possibly making them a pollinator. However, the wasp larvae is a different story.
The wasp larvae's food are beetles in the family Scarabaiedae, especially the May beetle (Engel and Grimaldi 2006). P. polyturator is a parasitic wasp of these beetles, meaning the beetle is used as a "first meal" for the Pelecinid wasp's larvae.
An adult May Beetle. This insects
larvae is the favorite food for the young P.
polyturator.
