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Amegilla cingulata
A blue-banded bee perching on an aerial root. The female neon cuckoo bee, Thyreus nitidulus (also resident at this location http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/102... ) seeks out the burrow nests of the blue-banded bee, and lays an egg into a partly completed brood cell while it is unguarded. The larval cuckoo bee then consumes the larder and later emerges from the cell. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyreus_nit... )
Spotted in a large semi-urban yard & garden next to a disturbed patch of remnant lowland forest.
Spotted on Nov 30, 2012
Submitted on Nov 30, 2012
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