Ant mimicry
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ant-mimicry-172-13955923
title:
Ant mimicry
text:
Ant mimicry or myrmecomorphy is mimicry of ants by other organisms; it has evolved over 70 times. Ants are abundant all over the world, and potential predators that rely on vision to identify their prey, such as birds and wasps, normally avoid them, because they are either unpalatable or aggressive. Some arthropods mimic ants to escape predation, while some predators of ants, especially spiders, mimic them anatomically and behaviourally in aggressive mimicry. Ant mimicry has existed almost as lo
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Animals that resemble ants
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mimicry
date created:
2006-07-03T21:30:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T21:52:26Z
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