Compared with other ultrablack animals, female velvet ants are darker than the common birdwing butterfly, the only other insect known to display such a shade. The velvet ants’ coloring is closer to ...
This study makes a valuable advance in our understanding of defensive symbionts in insects. It uses a meta-analysis to quantify the magnitude of change in host fitness components when symbionts are ...
We may have extended what we love beyond our families to include people we haven’t even met, such as celebrities. We even love other species, like our pets, and abstract things, like art, and nature.