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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Desert Cuckoo Bee

Nomada texana

About

A parasitic wasp-like bee that lays its eggs in the nests of other desert bees. Its larvae consume the host's pollen provisions.

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Did You Know?

It lacks pollen-collecting hairs entirely since it never gathers pollen for its own offspring.