is a phenomenon where well-defended species have evolved to mimic each other's warning signals to their mutual benefit. For velvet ants, sharing defences like colour, sting and stridulation may ...

These parasites are found throughout the social Hymenoptera (i.e., bees, wasps and ants), and have been most ... secretions that serve to appease, mimic or camouflage. In some slave-makers ...

The mimicry is near-perfect. For example, the Australian hammer orchid has taken advantage of a mating ritual of the Thynnid wasp, which involves a female wasp waiting on top of a branch or plant ...

With major visual predators of spiders being birds and wasps, both of which are likely ... but it turns out that spiders ...

Though the focal spider of this study—Siler collingwoodi—was already known to move in an ant-like fashion, the researchers wanted to know how accurate its mimicry is, whether it mimics more ...

1 of 25 Treehoppers of the genus Heteronotus mimic ants and/or wasps. While it’s tantalizing to imagine what information treehoppers may glean with these receptors, their main mode of ...

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To some, the wasps, moths, ants and spiders that emerge may be considered mundane, or even a pest. To Jimmy, a professional photographer, they are the subject of striking close-up shots revealing ...