
Here’s a bug that avoids being eaten by looking quite enough like an ant to fool a variety of predators. Its name, mirmicoides, means ant-like. Its naturally thick body is made to appear to have a typical ant “waist” with a judicious bit of white camouflage.

Certainly an interesting “bug” to find. (It’s a true bug, family Nabidae, the damsel bugs, in the Hemiptera.)

The long and distinctly un-antlike rostrum is held under the head, so predators presumably don’t notice it much. The antennae are similarly much too long to be an ant’s.