ASTOUNDING - HOW A BUG USES BODIES OF ANTS HE HAS KILLED AS PROTECTIVE CAMOUFLAGE

Killer camouflage: How the Assassin bug protects itself from predators in cloaks made from ants it has poisoned.

The Acanthaspis or Assassin bugs injects their victims with toxic enzyme and suck them dry

 

Then they then pile the dried-out corpses on their sticky backs to act as a defence against other predators, such as jumping spiders.

 

Photographer Guek Hock Ping, 50, took photos of deadly insects in Malaysia

Read more and see pictures of the bug with and without ants camouflage -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2524230/Killer-camouflage-How-Assassin-bug-protects-predators-cloaks-ants-poisoned.html

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