Cuckoo bee. Macrophotograph of a cuckoo bee (Holcopasites heliopsis). Cuckoo bees are so named for their habit of laying eggs in the nests of other be

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Cuckoo bee. Macrophotograph of a cuckoo bee (Holcopasites heliopsis). Cuckoo bees are so named for their habit of laying eggs in the nests of other bee species. Photographed by the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab: an organisation dedicated to identifying, cataloguing and monitoring bees and other insect species.

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Photo credit: © US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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