Usually means: Colorful wasp that parasitizes nests.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (cuckoo wasp)

▸ noun:  Any of the many wasps of the family Chrysididae that are kleptoparasites or parasitoids and are often brightly coloured.

Similar:
cuckoo bee, chrysidid, cockroach wasp, chalcid, cuckoo, cuckow, sycoecine, chalcidid, chalcidoid, froghopper, more...

Opposite:
host, parasite, beneficial insect

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Similar:
cuckoo bee, chrysidid, cockroach wasp, chalcid, cuckoo, cuckow, sycoecine, chalcidid, chalcidoid, froghopper, more...

Opposite:
host, parasite, beneficial insect



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