Definition of Kleptoparasite. Meaning of Kleptoparasite. Synonyms of Kleptoparasite

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Kleptoparasite. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Kleptoparasite and, of course, Kleptoparasite synonyms and on the right images related to the word Kleptoparasite.

Definition of Kleptoparasite

No result for Kleptoparasite. Showing similar results...

Meaning of Kleptoparasite from wikipedia

- 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...
- Dictynidae). Social predatory spiders need to defend their prey against kleptoparasites ("thieves"), and larger colonies are more successful in this. The herbivorous...
- such as Orthoptera, and some, in particular the Miltogramminae, are kleptoparasites of solitary Hymenoptera. The adults mostly feed on fluids from animal...
- 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...
- tendency to hunt other birds of prey. Many bald eagles are habitual kleptoparasites, especially in winters when fish are harder to come by. They have been...
- considered a separate genus) are brood parasites, sometimes called kleptoparasites, in the colonies of other bumblebees, and have lost the ability to...