Nature Notes | Native cuckoo-bee an expert at exploiting opportunities

By Roger Thomas
April 2 2020 - 4:30pm
INVADER: The beautiful cuckoo-bee lays her egg in an existing blue-banded bee 'nursery', where her offspring will steal all the resources already in place, leaving the original blue-banded larva to starve. Picture: Betty Bibby
INVADER: The beautiful cuckoo-bee lays her egg in an existing blue-banded bee 'nursery', where her offspring will steal all the resources already in place, leaving the original blue-banded larva to starve. Picture: Betty Bibby

Today's photo shows a native bee, beautifully coloured and much smaller than a European honey bee.

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