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Bombus barbutellus, commonly known as Barbut's cuckoo bee, is a species of cuckoo bumblebee in the family Apidae. Like other cuckoo bumblebees, it functions as an obligate social parasite: females invade the nests of host bumblebee species, primarily Bombus hortorum and Bombus ruderatus, where they...

Bombus rupestris is a European cuckoo bumblebee in the family Apidae and a social parasite primarily associated with the red-tailed bumblebee, Bombus lapidarius. A female enters a host nest and uses its workers to rear her reproductive offspring rather than producing a worker caste of her own. Femal...

Suckley's cuckoo bumblebee, Bombus suckleyi, is a socially parasitic bumblebee native to North America. Females do not establish colonies or produce a worker caste; instead, they enter colonies of suitable host bumblebees, displace or kill the resident queen, and use the host workers to rear reprodu...

The vestal cuckoo bumblebee, Bombus vestalis, is a socially parasitic species found across much of Europe and neighboring parts of Asia and North Africa. A female enters a colony of the buff-tailed bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, displaces or kills its queen, and induces the remaining workers to rear...

Bombus bohemicus is a cuckoo bumblebee described by Seidl in 1837 and distributed across the Palearctic. It is a social parasite with no worker caste of its own. Instead, mated females infiltrate the colonies of host bumblebees—primarily Bombus terrestris and Bombus lucorum—where they dominate or el...

Bombus norvegicus is a European cuckoo bumblebee in the genus Bombus. Unlike a colony-forming bumblebee queen, a female of this type enters an established nest and uses the host colony's workers to rear her offspring. It is associated with the tree bumblebee, Bombus hypnorum, so the species depends...

The Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumblebee, Bombus insularis, is a social-parasitic bumblebee native to northern and montane parts of North America. A female does not establish a normal worker-producing colony; instead, she enters a nest of another Bombus species and uses the host workers to rear her offsp...

The Arctic Cuckoo Bumblebee, Bombus hyperboreus, is a social-parasitic bumblebee with a circumpolar Arctic distribution. Its queen invades an established nest of another Arctic or alpine bumblebee, commonly Bombus polaris, and relies on the host workers to raise her reproductive offspring. Unlike mo...

Bombus campestris, described by Panzer in 1801, is a European cuckoo bumblebee and a social parasite of other bumblebees. The female does not establish a worker-producing colony of her own; instead, she enters a host nest, suppresses or replaces the resident queen, and lays eggs that are reared by h...

Bombus sylvestris, described by Lepeletier in 1832, is a cuckoo bumblebee found in Europe. Females enter nests of social bumblebees, especially Bombus pratorum, and use the host colony's workers to rear their offspring instead of producing a normal worker force of their own. The species belongs to t...

The lemon cuckoo bumblebee, Bombus citrinus, is a social-parasitic bumblebee native to eastern North America. A female does not establish a normal worker-producing colony or collect pollen in a pollen basket; instead, she invades an established bumblebee nest and makes the host workers raise her off...

Barbut's cuckoo bumblebee, Bombus barbutellus, is a European social parasite in the bumblebee family Apidae. It does not build a nest or maintain a worker force of its own. A female enters an established bumblebee colony, displaces or suppresses the resident queen, and uses the host workers to rear...