Where one female uses the resources and nest of another individual (of either the same or a different species) to provide for her young thus usurping the owners efforts and preventing her from using them.
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A case of multiple parasitism in which a parasitoid preferentially attacks a host already parasitised by another species rather than an unparasitised host.
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cleptoparasitism, kleptoparasitism 1. A form of parasitism found in some social organisms in which a member of one species steals the prey or food stores of another species to feed its own progeny. 2. A relationship between two parasitic species; such as, with some parasitoid wasps, whereby the female of one species regularly usurps the prey of th...
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