- 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...
-
obligatory parasitoid, but
rather a
facultative parasitoid, or
simply a
kleptoparasite. The
adults sometimes feed on
flowers and
leaves of
plants of such diverse...
-
wingless and eyeless, as are many
other ectoparasites.
Others are
kleptoparasites of
other invertebrates, such as the
small hive
beetle (Aethina tumida)...
-
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...
- Dictynidae).
Social predatory spiders need to
defend their prey
against kleptoparasites ("thieves"), and
larger colonies are more
successful in this. The herbivorous...
- in the nest
cells of
other bees, but they are
normally described as
kleptoparasites (Gr****: klepto-, to steal),
rather than as
brood parasites, because...
-
Arctic fox. They
often ****ociate with
another canine, the wolf, as a
kleptoparasite,
following to
scavenge wolf-kills in winter, but also co-operatively...
- consumption. This may
allow dholes to
compete more
successfully with
kleptoparasites. In
terms of size,
dholes average about 88–113 cm (35–44 in) in length...
-
small dogs have been swallowed. The
Australian pelican is an
occasional kleptoparasite of
other water birds, such as cormorants.
Cannibalism of
young pelicans...
