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brood parasitism

Scope: community ecology
Papers: 8 | Mentions: 11

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Knowledge graph centered on brood parasitism with 40 nodes and 150 connections. Top connected: Unknown, Bombus, Ligusticum porteri, Bombus terrestris, Bombus appositus.

Definition

When sapygid wasps enter brood cells during the provisioning or brood cell construction stages and lay eggs in provisioned brood cells prior to wall construction

Related Terms (5)

cleptoparasitismkleptoparasitismparasitismnest depredationpredation