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"Thick-headed" fly! Ha ha ha ha ha!
But seriously, I wouldn't call them thick-headed — they are pretty clever. This one knew how to impersonate a wasp well enough to fool me (but not my insect ID app). And they make other insects raise their kids for them.
Here's another clever insect:
The camouflaged looper, the larva of the Wavy-lined Emerald Moth, decorates itself with bits of vegetation so it looks like part of a plant instead of the tasty morsel of protein that it really is.
One of these days, I have to get back to Jeremiah.
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