This fact about Cuckoo Bee will amaze you!

A new cleptoparasitic bee species, known as the Cuckoo bee, was discovered in Meghalaya.

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The species belongs to the genus Tetralonioidella and is named Tetralonioidella meghalayensis Dohling & Dey, 2024.

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This is the third species of its kind found in India and the 20th globally.

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Cuckoo bees lay their eggs in the nests of other bees, similar to the behavior of cuckoo birds.

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He completed the construction of Lalbagh Fort in Dhaka.

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T. meghalayensis belongs to the Melectini tribe and parasitises bees in the genera Elaphropoda and Habropoda.

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The female bee measures about 15.07 mm in length, with yellow to dark brown body hairs.

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