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1 day ago · Moreover, 15% of the bees are brood parasites, where the female cuckoo bees enter the host nest, and lay eggs and leaves, whereas the newly hatched offspring of the cuckoo bee feed upon the host’s offspring and depend upon the host offspring’s diet. Among the other bees, 9% of them are considered social bees.
6 days ago · The diverse Hirundinidae family offered the chance to explore whether eggshell patterns act as an identity signal for recognition during nesting in crowded colonies or in reaction to brood parasitism. The results showed a correlation between social breeding, open-cup nesting and the laying of maculated eggs.
5 days ago · In brood parasitism, common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) nestlings, raised by host adults who are not closely related, offer an instructive system for studying the transmission and recognition of danger signals among nestlings of different species that share special relationships.
4 days ago · Intraspecific parasitism is parasitic behavior between members of the same species. However the prominent example is usually brood parasitism, such as when a bird tricks another bird of the same species to take care of her eggs. Brood parasitism is a type of ectoparasitism (when the parasite exists outside the host body).
4 days ago · For centuries, people have thought of parasites as nature’s villains. They often infect people and livestock. In fact, parasites are by definition bad for their hosts, but today, more...
1 day ago · Brood parasites occur in several bee families including the apid subfamily Nomadinae. Females of these species lack pollen collecting structures (the scopa) and do not construct their own nests. They typically enter the nests of pollen collecting species, and lay their eggs in cells provisioned by the host bee.
