Waroona cuckoo bee
The Waroona cuckoo bee is black with spots of white hair, like a tiny polka-dot bee. It is a sneaky bee that never builds its own nest. Just like a cuckoo bird, it lets another bee raise its baby.
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Fun facts
It lays its own egg inside, next to the other bee's egg, and then fixes the hole again.
Its baby has big jaws. It gets rid of the other egg and eats all the stored food itself.
Its front wings are see-through near the body and smoky black towards the tips.
Most asked questions about Waroona cuckoo bee
?Why is it called a cuckoo bee?
Because, like the cuckoo bird, it lays its egg in someone else's nest and lets that food feed its baby.
?How big is the Waroona cuckoo bee?
Its body is 8 to 12 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Thyreus waroonensis
- Named by
- Cockerell, 1913
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Thyreus waroonensis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Heath Hunter. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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