Newly hatched hummingbird looks, acts like a toxic caterpillar
The white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) is a jewel-toned hummingbird found in the neotropical lowlands of South ...
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Venomous Caterpillars You Should Watch Out For In Your Garden
Stinging caterpillars actually aren’t stinging you and injecting venom, like a wasp would," says Eric Benson, PhD, professor ...
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Have a boxwood in your yard? You need to check for a moth infestation
The moth caterpillars can defoliate a boxwood within a single season and eventually kill the shrub. Infestations are identified by yellowing leaves, small green caterpillars with black stripes ...
Scientists Stunned by Bird That Pretends To Be a Toxic Caterpillar
A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...
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Small bird, big trick: How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to survive
It turns out the hummingbird might fend off predators by mimicking a poisonous caterpillar that lives ... while females tend to sport low-key green plumage. The tropical rainforest is a dangerous ...
It's Time To Start Layering Into Micron Stock Again
Investing in deeply cyclical businesses like Micron can be difficult for individual investors. Read my few adjustments to the ...
New species of ‘erratic’-flying creatures discovered in Angola. Take a look
Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. The new species was ...
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Hummingbird Chicks Observed for the First Time Pretending to be Caterpillars to Avoid Being Eaten
Tiny hummingbird chicks were observed mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to survive in the Panama rainforest–a first for science.