{"id":5514,"date":"2012-06-15T18:43:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T01:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5514"},"modified":"2012-06-15T18:57:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T01:57:25","slug":"cuckoo-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5514","title":{"rendered":"Cuckoo bee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For all its parasitic behaviour, a cuckoo bee is beautiful to look at.<\/p>\n

A cuckoo bee looks something like a wasp—but it isn’t a wasp; it’s a bee. There are quite a few different apian species that have earned the name, cuckoo bee: a bee that has the habit of laying its eggs in the nests of other bees (and so behaves in a manner reminiscent of cuckoo birds). Cuckoo bee females are best recognized by the fact that they lack pollen-collecting structures. Further, they neither construct their own nests, nor have much body hair.<\/p>\n

Most cuckoo bees are in the sub-family, nomandinae, but there are many different species, a number of which I have seen in my garden. I don’t know which species today’s cuckoo bee is.<\/p>\n

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The loveliest looking species of cuckoo bee I have seen in my garden is this one from three years ago.
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