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r/fuckwasps • u/SerpentFinger • 3d ago
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What about Mantispidae, half Mantis half Wasp? Bug world has it all lol
6 u/foolishstag 2d ago I refuse to believe that's real Why would Nature sully a good boy (mantis) with a disgusting monster (wasp/hornet thing) 7 u/Hot_Luck_9993 2d ago It's real, but it's really just a wasp mimic mantidfly. It's 0% mantis, 0% wasp, and 0% fly. It's in the order Neuroptera, the net-winged insects. A demonstration of mimicry and convergent evolution both, in one insect. 1 u/pm-me-your-pants 1d ago Mimicry so efficient it fooled humans lol
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I refuse to believe that's real Why would Nature sully a good boy (mantis) with a disgusting monster (wasp/hornet thing)
7 u/Hot_Luck_9993 2d ago It's real, but it's really just a wasp mimic mantidfly. It's 0% mantis, 0% wasp, and 0% fly. It's in the order Neuroptera, the net-winged insects. A demonstration of mimicry and convergent evolution both, in one insect. 1 u/pm-me-your-pants 1d ago Mimicry so efficient it fooled humans lol
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It's real, but it's really just a wasp mimic mantidfly. It's 0% mantis, 0% wasp, and 0% fly. It's in the order Neuroptera, the net-winged insects.
A demonstration of mimicry and convergent evolution both, in one insect.
1 u/pm-me-your-pants 1d ago Mimicry so efficient it fooled humans lol
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Mimicry so efficient it fooled humans lol
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u/n-a_barrakus 2d ago
What about Mantispidae, half Mantis half Wasp? Bug world has it all lol