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The Moth That Drinks Tears From Sleeping Birds
In the forests of Madagascar, one moth feeds on something stranger than nectar.
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A young African assassin bug hunts ants, drinks them hollow and glues their empty bodies onto its back. It looks gross, but the pile of ants works as armour. In experiments, jumping spiders attacked ant-covered bugs far less often than bare ones.
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- Journal of Zoology: Bugs with backpacks deter vision-guided predation by jumping spiders
- National Geographic: Assassin bugs deceive spiders with coat of many corpses
- Wikipedia: Acanthaspis petax
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#47Weird nature
These Bees Cook An Intruder Alive
When a giant hornet scout finds a Japanese honeybee nest, hundreds of bees pile onto it and form a tight ball.
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#32Weird nature
This Spider Goes Fishing With Fake Moth Perfume
Bolas spiders don't build a normal web.
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