What does the assassin bug do to deserve its name? It wears the corpses of its ant prey as a disguise! Scientists think it does this to prevent spiders—the bug’s main predator—from targeting it, since they're not able to identify it as a meal.
— American Museum of Natural History (@AMNH) August 3, 2020
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