# Sleeping Melecta 02 (MK)

- By: Mathias Krumbholz
- Date: 2011-05-11
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sleeping_Melecta_02_(MK).jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/e/ee/Sleeping_Melecta_02_%28MK%29.jpg/1920px-Sleeping_Melecta_02_%28MK%29.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A sleeping cuckoo bee Melecta luctuosa The term cuckoo bee is used for a variety of different bee lineages which have evolved the kleptoparasitic habit of laying their eggs in the nests of other bees, reminiscent of the behavior of cuckoo birds.