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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees (Halictidae) » Sweat and Furrow Bees (Halictinae) » Halictini » Blood Bees (Sphecodes) » Cyclops Cuckoo Sweat Bee (Sphecodes heraclei) » Sphecodes heraclei heraclei
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Halictidae: Sphecodes sp. - Sphecodes heraclei - female
Copyright © 2015 Lloyd Davidson

Halictidae: Sphecodes sp. - Sphecodes heraclei - Female
Cook County, Illinois, USA
November 8, 2009
From Marshall's Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity (p.563):
Sphecodes are kleptoparasites that develop on the pollen supplies salted away in the nests of other halictid bees. Kleptoparasitism is a common strategy, and it is usual for the kleptoparasitic larva to kill off the host's egg or larva before digging into the stored food. Sphecodes, however, is unusual because the adult bee kills the host's egg.
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Contributed by Lloyd Davidson on 13 January, 2015 - 11:35am
Last updated 9 March, 2015 - 8:46am

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Sphecodes Heracles female
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