- feeding, such as when food is
scarce or when
victims are abundant. Many
kleptoparasites are arthropods,
especially bees and wasps, but
including some true...
-
hatches it
consumes the host larva's
pollen ball, and, if the
female kleptoparasite has not
already done so,
kills and eats the host larva. In a few cases...
- with the
modern brown bear. The idea that
Arctodus was an
obligate kleptoparasite was most
notably proposed by Paul Matheus.
Under this model, A. simus...
- in the nest
cells of
other bees, but they are
normally described as
kleptoparasites (Gr****: klepto-, to steal),
rather than as
brood parasites, because...
-
obligatory parasitoid, but
rather a
facultative parasitoid, or
simply a
kleptoparasite. The
adults sometimes feed on
flowers and
leaves of
plants of such diverse...
-
themselves or to
provision their nests. Many,
notably the
cuckoo wasps, are
kleptoparasites,
laying eggs in the
nests of
other wasps. Many of the
solitary wasps...
- such as Orthoptera, and some, in
particular the Miltogramminae, are
kleptoparasites of
solitary Hymenoptera. The
adults mostly feed on
fluids from animal...
-
Cacoxenus indagator is a
species of
fruit fly. It is a
kleptoparasite,
laying its eggs in the pollen-filled nest
cells of
mason bees. On
account of its...
- Dictynidae).
Social predatory spiders need to
defend their prey
against kleptoparasites ("thieves"), and
larger colonies are more
successful in this. The herbivorous...
- cowbird's egg, that has been laid in its nest. The
great skua is a
powerful kleptoparasite,
relentlessly pursuing other seabirds until they
disgorge their catches...
