#mimicry — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mimicry, aggregated by home.social.
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Saw this extremely convincing wasp-mimicking hoverfly, _Spilomyia_ (https://bugguide.net/node/view/3288), on the goldenrod in the garden today! Then on the way to the store saw plenty of the "model", _Ancistrocerus_ wasps (https://bugguide.net/node/view/6812), also on goldenrod.
#bugstodon #insects #wasps #flies #mimicry #Hymenoptera #Vespidae #Eumeninae #Diptera #Syrphidae #Eristalinae
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Is it a wasp?! No, it's a robber fly pretending to be a wasp.
This is the NZ endemic species, Saropogon antipodus (it has no common name). This is the first one I've seen.
A student on our recent ecology field trip found it on the floor of the Boyle Outdoor Education Centre, and thought it was a wasp (mimicry successful!).
There are 52 observations so far on #iNaturalist and this is the first from the Southern Alps.