- 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...
- the
modern brown bear. The idea that
Arctodus simus was an
obligate kleptoparasite was most
notably proposed by Paul Matheus.
Under this model, A. simus...
- in the nest
cells of
other bees, but they are
normally described as
kleptoparasites (Gr****: klepto-, to steal),
rather than as
brood parasites, because...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Miltogramminae are a
subfamily of the
family Sarcophagidae. They are
kleptoparasites of
solitary bees and
solitary wasps (not
eusocial species). Aenigmetopia...
-
obligatory parasitoid, but
rather a
facultative parasitoid, or
simply a
kleptoparasite. The
adults sometimes feed on
flowers and
leaves of
plants of such diverse...
- cowbird's egg in an
Eastern phoebe's nest. The
great skua is a
powerful kleptoparasite,
relentlessly pursuing other seabirds until they
disgorge their catches...
-
referred to as ruby-tailed wasps.
Cuckoo wasps are
parasitoids and
kleptoparasites,
laying their eggs in the
nests of
other species where their young...
