The Assassin Bug

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These ruthless Assassin bugs hid from potential predators using a camouflage cloak – made from the bodies of ants they had killed.

The deadly insects paralyzed the ants by injecting them with a toxic enzyme before sucking them dry.

They then piled the dried-out corpses on their sticky backs to act as a defense against other predators, such as jumping spiders.

Nature…go home. You’re drunk.

Photo by Guek Hock Ping/Photoshot/Solent News.
Via The Telegraph.

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