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cuckoo wasp

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noun

  1. any of several small, metallic-green or -blue wasps of the family Chrysididae that deposit their eggs in nests of other wasps.

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There is only one case known of a cuckoo wasp, and that resembles its host even more closely than do the cuckoos of the humble bees.

From Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects by Saunders, Edward

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