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- Cuckoo_bee abstract "The term cuckoo bee is used for a variety of different bee lineages which have evolved the kleptoparasitic habit of laying their eggs in the nests of other bees, reminiscent of the behavior of cuckoo birds. The name is technically best applied to the apid subfamily Nomadinae. Females of cuckoo bees can be easily recognized in almost all cases, as they lack pollen collecting structures (the scopa) and do not construct their own nests. They often have reduced body hair, abnormally thick and/or heavily sculptured exoskeleton, and saber-like mandibles, although this is not universally true; other less visible changes are also common.They typically enter the nests of pollen-collecting species, and lay their eggs in cells provisioned by the host bee. When the cuckoo bee larva hatches it consumes the host larva's pollen ball, and, if the female kleptoparasite has not already done so, kills and eats the host larva. In a few cases in which the hosts are social species (e.g., the subgenus Psithyrus of the genus Bombus, which are parasitic bumble bees, and infiltrate nests of non-parasitic species of Bombus), the kleptoparasite remains in the host nest and lays many eggs, sometimes even killing the host queen and replacing her - such species are often called social parasites, although a few of them are also what are referred to as "brood parasites."Many cuckoo bees are closely related to their hosts, and may bear similarities in appearance reflecting this relationship. This common pattern gave rise to the ecological principle known as "Emery's Rule". Others parasitize bees in families different from their own, like Townsendiella, a nomadine apid, one species of which is a kleptoparasite of the melittid genus Hesperapis, whereas the other species in the same genus attack halictid bees.The number of times kleptoparasitic behavior has independently evolved within the bees is remarkable; C. D. Michener (2000) lists 16 lineages in which parasitism of social species has evolved (mostly in the family Apidae), and 31 lineages that parasitize solitary hosts (mostly in Apidae, Megachilidae, and Halictidae), collectively representing several thousand species, and therefore a very large proportion of overall bee diversity. There are no cuckoo bees in the families Andrenidae, Melittidae, or Stenotritidae, and possibly the Colletidae (there are only unconfirmed suspicions that one group of Hawaiian hylaeine species may be parasitic).".
- Cuckoo_bee thumbnail Cuckoo_bee.jpg?width=300.
- Cuckoo_bee wikiPageID "3350402".
- Cuckoo_bee wikiPageRevisionID "568050274".
- Cuckoo_bee hasPhotoCollection Cuckoo_bee.
- Cuckoo_bee subject Category:Bees.
- Cuckoo_bee subject Category:Brood_parasites.
- Cuckoo_bee subject Category:Parasitology.
- Cuckoo_bee type Animal100015388.
- Cuckoo_bee type Arthropod101767661.
- Cuckoo_bee type Bee102206856.
- Cuckoo_bee type Bees.
- Cuckoo_bee type BroodParasites.
- Cuckoo_bee type HymenopterousInsect102206270.
- Cuckoo_bee type Insect102159955.
- Cuckoo_bee type Invertebrate101905661.
- Cuckoo_bee type LivingThing100004258.
- Cuckoo_bee type Object100002684.
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- Cuckoo_bee comment "The term cuckoo bee is used for a variety of different bee lineages which have evolved the kleptoparasitic habit of laying their eggs in the nests of other bees, reminiscent of the behavior of cuckoo birds. The name is technically best applied to the apid subfamily Nomadinae. Females of cuckoo bees can be easily recognized in almost all cases, as they lack pollen collecting structures (the scopa) and do not construct their own nests.".
- Cuckoo_bee label "Cuckoo bee".
- Cuckoo_bee label "Пчёлы-кукушки".
- Cuckoo_bee sameAs m.025spzx.
- Cuckoo_bee sameAs Q2073531.
- Cuckoo_bee sameAs Q2073531.
- Cuckoo_bee sameAs Cuckoo_bee.
- Cuckoo_bee wasDerivedFrom Cuckoo_bee?oldid=568050274.
- Cuckoo_bee depiction Cuckoo_bee.jpg.
- Cuckoo_bee isPrimaryTopicOf Cuckoo_bee.
