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Family ANTHOPHORIDAE
This page contains pictures and information about Neon Cuckoo Bees that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

- Body length 15mm
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- The Neon Cuckoo Bee female does not make its own nest. It lays egg in the
nest of blue-banded bee. Female places an egg in a partially completed brood
cell. After the blue-banded bee finishes provision and seals the brood cell,
the cuckoo bee egg hatches into larvae and feeds on the provisions stored by
blue-banded bee.
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- Photo thanks to Kylie
Hungerford
Photo thanks to Kylie
Hungerford
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- Three Blue-banded Bees and one Cuckoo Bee.
They
rest on grass stem in small group, as shown in the above picture. They
hold themselves on stem by their jaws.
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- On Feb 2011 we found this bee visiting flowers during late afternoon.
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- Reference:
- 1. Native
Bees of the Sydney region, a field guide - Anne Dollin, Michael Batley,
Martyn Robinson & Brian Faulkner, Australian Native Bee Research Centre.
P55.
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