The hammer orchid's flower mimics the female wasp looking upward for a male flying ... spread of plants over a wide area -- generally, insects will travel further to find a mate than to find ...

Those singular shapes, insect anatomists explain ... 1 of 25 Treehoppers of the genus Heteronotus mimic ants and/or wasps. While it’s tantalizing to imagine what information treehoppers may ...

Animals mimic other animals ... identical to bumblebees and they use this resemblance to feast on real bees, wasps, and ...

We all know that wasps, hornets, and yes, yellowjackets, can all deliver a painful sting. As primarily predators, these ...

The larva is a parasitoid, meaning it is a parasite that will end up killing its host. Many bee-fly species are parasites of bees and wasps, but there are some that target beetles, grasshoppers, ants, ...

Such mimics are imperfect, but fortunately so is butterfly vision. Eggs must also somehow escape having the eggs of another type of insect, parasitoids, laid inside of them. Parasitoid wasps and ...

Instead of eating insects and spiders, adult wasps - both social and solitary - only feed on ... This is where well-defended species have evolved to mimic each other’s warning signals to their mutual ...

In the insect world ... angry bee or wasp, keeping attackers away. Another, more unusual variety of camouflage is "aggressive mimicry." Some insect populations have evolved to mimic another ...

Most wasps are small, solitary and reproduce by laying their eggs in or on other arthropods, particularly insects and spiders. Cynipoidea specialise on fly larvae. As with other parasitoid wasps ...