#mimicry — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mimicry, aggregated by home.social.
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Not a #bee - the red compound eyes make it obvious to a shrewd observer that this is a species of #fly that has evolved to mimic a bee.
#photography #nature #evolution #insects #mimicry #camouflage -
Investigating the remarkable reproductive cycle of #Michigan's threatened #mollusks https://phys.org/news/2024-05-qa-remarkable-reproductive-michigan-threatened.html
Polymorphism in the aggressive #mimicry lure of the parasitic freshwater #mussel #Lampsilis fasciola https://peerj.com/articles/17359/
"the freshwater #mussels' remarkable reproductive cycle includes the use of fleshy 'mantle lures' by pregnant females to attract nearby #fish and infect them with mussel #larvae."
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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.