#mimicry — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mimicry, aggregated by home.social.
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"Like wily perfumers, a parasitic beetle’s larvae create floral aromas to lure in bees. Plants are known to cosplay as animals, but this rare discovery could be the first known example of an animal chemically mimicking a plant."
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/beetle-larvae-lure-bees-mimic-flowers
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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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The ant _Prenolepis imparis_ and the jumping spider _Synageles_, on milkweed.
I don't think _P. imparis_ is the "model" for this spider, but they do look pretty similar—especially when they're both moving fast. It's very easy to mistake _Synageles_ for an ant.
#DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #DailyAntPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #JumpingSpider #Araneae #Salticidae #mimicry #myrmecomorphy