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 ...
Spiders, while known to give many an uneasy feeling, help to control flies, mosquitoes, moths, beetles and wasps. Green lacewings and lacewing larvae feed on aphids and a score of other soft-bodied ...