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Thyreus caeruleopunctatus is an Australian blue-spotted cuckoo bee, notable as a brood parasite of solitary Amegilla bees rather than a nest builder.

Nomada fucata is a species of cuckoo bee found across the Palearctic region, first described by the entomologist Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer in 1798. Like other kleptoparasitic bees, it does not construct its own nests or gather pollen. Instead, it relies on the nests of solitary mining bees, partic...

Exaerete frontalis is a large orchid bee in the family Apidae, native to the tropical Americas. It is a cleptoparasitic species: females do not provision their own brood cells but enter nests of certain other orchid bees and lay eggs there, leaving the developing offspring to use provisions gathered...

Coelioxys inermis is a species of cuckoo bee in the family Megachilidae, originally described by William Kirby in 1802. Like other members of Coelioxys, it does not construct and provision its own nest; the female lays eggs in the nests of other solitary bees, and the developing larva consumes the s...

Nomada goodeniana is a nomad bee in the family Apidae and a cleptoparasitic species associated with solitary mining bees. Females do not collect pollen for their own nests; instead, they enter the nests of host bees, including Andrena species, and lay eggs there. The offspring use provisions gathere...

Nomada ruficornis is a species of cuckoo bee in the family Apidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 and has a red-and-yellow body pattern that gives it a wasp-like appearance. Rather than raising its own brood in a conventional nest, the female lays an egg in a host bee's nest, where the de...

Sphecodes gibbus is a cleptoparasitic bee in the family Halictidae and the type species of the genus Sphecodes. It is widely associated with the Palearctic region and is often called a blood bee because females commonly have a reddish abdomen. Rather than provisioning its own nest, the female enters...

Triepeolus remigatus is a species of cuckoo bee in the family Apidae, first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1804. It is cleptoparasitic: instead of provisioning its own nest in the usual way, it lays its eggs in nests made by other bees, leaving the developing offspring to use the host’s p...

Nomada fabriciana is a species of cuckoo bee in the family Apidae. Females are cleptoparasites: instead of provisioning and raising their own brood in a completed nest, they enter the nest of a host bee, place an egg there, and leave the developing larva to use resources collected by the host. The s...

Sphecodes monilicornis is a species of blood bee in the family Halictidae. It is a solitary-bee cleptoparasite, meaning that a female uses the nest of another bee instead of collecting pollen to provision a nest of her own. The species is associated with European and Asian bee fauna and is recognize...

Sphecodes hyalinatus is a Palearctic cuckoo bee in the sweat-bee family Halictidae. Like other members of Sphecodes, it is cleptoparasitic: females do not gather pollen to provision their own young, but use the nests and food stores prepared by host bees. Records place the species mainly in Europe,...