Calliopsis cuckoo nomad bee
The Calliopsis cuckoo nomad bee is a tiny bee from North America, only about half a centimetre long. It is a cuckoo bee: like a cuckoo bird, it sneaks its eggs into another bee's nest. The other bee's food then feeds the cuckoo bee's baby.
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Fun facts
It lays its eggs in the nests of a small bee called Calliopsis andreniformis, which gives it its name.
Cuckoo bees do not collect pollen for their babies. They let other bees do the work.
There are two kinds of it, called subspecies.
Most asked questions about Calliopsis cuckoo nomad bee
?What is a cuckoo bee?
A bee that lays its eggs in another bee's nest, so the other bee's food feeds its babies.
?How big is the Calliopsis cuckoo nomad bee?
Only about 5 to 6 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Holcopasites calliopsidis
- Named by
- Linsley, 1943
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Holcopasites calliopsidis (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 USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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