Müllerian mimicry, a concept first proposed in the 1870s ... belongs to a different subfamily and is not a classic velvet ant, although the female wasps are wingless.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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ants, wasps, butterflies, and even bats to help with pollination. Five words came to mind: impersonate, imitate, impress, ...

Social wasps such as the hornets and yellow-jackets live in colonies similar to those of honey bees and ants Yellow-jackets (Vespula vulgaris) are the size of honey bees, with black and bright ...