cuckoo bee
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Cuckoo bee — A cuckoo bee from the genus Nomada. 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 … Wikipedia
cuckoo bee — noun a parasitic bee which lays its eggs in the nest of another kind of bee. [Nomada, Psithyrus, and other genera.] … English new terms dictionary
cuckoo bee — noun : any of various apoid bees (as members of the family Nomadidae) that live especially in the larval stage as inquilines or parasites in the nests of other bees … Useful english dictionary
Bee — Taxobox name = Bees image width = 200px image caption = Honeybee ( Apis mellifera ) collecting pollen regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hymenoptera subordo = Apocrita superfamilia = Apoidea unranked genus = Anthophila … Wikipedia
Cuckoo search — (CS) is an optimization algorithm developed by Xin she Yang and Suash Deb in 2009.[1][2] It was inspired by the obligate brood parasitism of some cuckoo species by laying their eggs in the nests of other host birds (of other species). Some host… … Wikipedia
Cuckoo Roller — Female or juvenile Cuckoo oller Conservation status … Wikipedia
Cuckoo wasp — Cuckoo Wasps Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum … Wikipedia
cuckoo-bumblebee — n. 1. a bee that is parasitic in the nests of bumblebees. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
cuckoo wasp — any of several small, metallic green or blue wasps of the family Chrysididae that deposit their eggs in nests of other wasps. * * * ▪ insect also called Ruby tailed Wasp, any member of the insect family Chrysididae (Chrysalidae) of the order… … Universalium
Cuckoo-roller — Taxobox name = Cuckoo Roller image caption = Female or juvenile cuckoo roller status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 status ref = [IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=47676|title=Leptosomus discolor|downloaded=11 May 2006… … Wikipedia
