The Role of Kookoo Birds in Bees

Adult bees consume nectar, developing bees consume pollen. Typically it's the female parent bees that are feeding them. But then there's also bees that are kleptoparasites. They're like kookoobies. So they'll go into the burrow of their host bee, they'll lay an egg in there, their egg will hatch. It'll either kill the egg or the larva of the host species and then eat all of the pollen. And so do kookoo bees love that kind of drama? There's no real taking care of them. Most bees that are non-kookoo bees would actually just lay the egg. They'll provision some

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