Stinging caterpillars actually aren’t stinging you and injecting venom, like a wasp would," says Eric Benson, PhD, professor ...

A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

Hummingbird Chicks Observed for the First Time Pretending to be Caterpillars to Avoid Being Eaten (goodnewsnetwork.org) — ...

It turns out the hummingbird might fend off predators by mimicking a poisonous caterpillar that lives in the same region. In a new paper published March 17 in Ecology, Taylor, associate professor in ...

Tiny hummingbird chicks were observed mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to survive in the Panama rainforest–a first for science.

A baby hummingbird might have a special way of warding off predators, which threaten tropical hummingbird species in infancy.

The South Americans hummingbird chicks try to disguise themselves as caterpillar to throw off predators. The post How ...

Scientists discovered a hummingbird chick that twitches like a caterpillar. This behavior scares off predators.

larva hatching out and eating pines trees to death and toxic caterpillars descending to burrow underground to reappear as moths in time to repeat the process, leaving stripped branches and a long ...

Uncover the mysteries of hummingbirds. How does the white-necked jacobin trick predators through mimicry? Find out now.

For the first time, scientists described a hummingbird chick potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting eaten. When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin ...