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 ...
To locate the perfect nest site, both species search for abandoned ... on older generations to survive. Wasps collect pulp to smooth into hexagonal paper cells (similar to the inside of a honey ...
To locate the perfect nest site, both species search for abandoned rodent holes (the perfect cosy size ... Larvae rely entirely on older generations to survive. Wasps collect pulp to smooth into ...