The main modern effective methods of collecting parasitic hymenopteran insects are given. Features of various methods of field collection, laboratory content and breeding of parasitic hymenopteran insects from various hosts are considered. For the first time, a number of modern collection methods are described and discussed, previously unknown and little used in the domestic practice of entomological research. Recommendations are intended for students, graduate students, teachers, agronomists, entomologists, specialists in biological and integrated methods of plant protection. Bibliographer. 106 titles. Recommended for publication at a meeting of the Department of Entomophage Systematics and Ecological Foundations of the Biometod of the Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.