Exploitation[edit]
Further information: Predation, Parasitism, Herbivory, and Batesian mimicry
This is not a bee, but a syrphid fly, a Batesian mimic.
In exploitative interactions, one species benefits at the expense of another. Predation is an interaction between organisms in which one organism captures biomass from another. It is often used as a synonym for carnivory but in its widest definition includes all forms of one organism eating another, regardless of trophic level (e.g., herbivory), closeness of association (e.g., parasitism and parasitoidism) and harm done to prey (e.g., grazing). Intraguild predation occurs when an organism preys upon another of different species but at the same trophic level (e.g., coyotes kill and ingest gray foxes in southern California). Batesian mimicry is also an exploitative interaction, where one species has evolved to mimic another, to the advantage of the copying species but to the detriment of the species being mimick