Scientists Stunned by Bird That Pretends To Be a Toxic Caterpillar
A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...
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In a first, hummingbird baby found using caterpillar disguise to scare predators
In a cute first, a curious observation led to a sweet and thrilling discovery of a caterpillar-like hummingbird with hairs ...
Baby hummingbird appears to mimic caterpillar to avoid death
A baby hummingbird might have a special way of warding off predators, which threaten tropical hummingbird species in infancy.
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Caterpillar-like baby hummingbird discovered in Panama
A baby hummingbird hatches. But it has fluffy feathers on its back, looking just like a dangerous caterpillar. Could this be ...
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A caterpillar's medicine cabinet
One of the biggest threats a caterpillar faces is the risk of being parasitized. Wasps and flies inject their own eggs into a caterpillar's body for growing larvae to feed off its internal organs. But ...
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Spite: Evolution Finally Gets Nasty
These wasps lay their eggs in the egg of moth, Trichoplusia ni. The host larva as a fourth instar is shown at top. Copidosoma fight for resources as they consume the caterpillar. Some differentiate ...
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Body snatchers: eaten alive by parasitic wasps
These are usually wasps, laying their own eggs inside an egg, caterpillar or pupa. Parasitoids start their lives as parasites, in or on the body of a host, but they end up as predators, eating the ...