- feeding, such as when food is
scarce or when
victims are abundant. Many
kleptoparasites are arthropods,
especially bees and wasps, but
including some true...
-
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...
-
obligatory parasitoid, but
rather a
facultative parasitoid, or
simply a
kleptoparasite. The
adults sometimes feed on
flowers and
leaves of
plants of such diverse...
-
themselves or to
provision their nests. Many,
notably the
cuckoo wasps, are
kleptoparasites,
laying eggs in the
nests of
other wasps. Many of the
solitary wasps...
-
wingless and eyeless, as are many
other ectoparasites.
Others are
kleptoparasites of
other invertebrates, such as the
small hive
beetle (Aethina tumida)...
-
Myrmosa atra is a
Palearctic species of myrmosid, a
kleptoparasite in
fossorial bee nests.
BWARS Edward Saunders 1896, The
Hymenoptera Aculeata of the...
-
Cacoxenus indagator is a
species of
fruit fly. It is a
kleptoparasite,
laying its eggs in the pollen-filled nest
cells of
mason bees. On
account of its...
- Dictynidae).
Social predatory spiders need to
defend their prey
against kleptoparasites ("thieves"), and
larger colonies are more
successful in this. The herbivorous...
- They
sometimes ****ociate with
another canine, the grey wolf, as a
kleptoparasite,
following to
scavenge wolf-kills in winter.
Ravens are
regular predators...
-
called resin bees. All
species feed on
nectar and pollen, but a few are
kleptoparasites (informally
called "cuckoo bees"),
feeding on
pollen collected by other...
