The bizarre insects deter predators with their irritating hairs, and it seems the birds have even learned to copy the way the caterpillar moves.
Poinar, in the same issue of Current Biology, pages R278 R280, "Palaeontology: The 165-Million-Year Itch," writes that the above new flea-like fossils from China provide a rare, tantalizing glimpse of bizarre insects in the Cretaceous and Jurassic.
Minimal electronic music repeated in cycles creates varying levels of density in the structures and different rhythms create different permutations and subdivisions in this bizarre, insect-like colony, which seems jarringly at odds with its proposed surroundings of an English-style country park.
Zuk waxes exuberant over the bizarre things insects do to get ahead.
At Christine Burgin Mr. Lincoln presents an impressive reproduction of an 18th-century scientific clock and two dozen small electrically motorized figures that look like bizarre mechanical insects.
David Drew, of Agriprotein, finds it particularly bizarre that insects can't even be fed to chickens.
They don't build their own houses or care for their young, and their sexual practices are bizarre even by insect standards: Because the female bedbug has no genital opening, the male inseminates her by using his hardened, sharpened genitalia to punch a hole through her abdomen.
Darwin imagined that bizarre cavern-dwelling insects and fish would evolve when surface dwellers strayed into a cave.
Imagine a worm-shaped creature that has a tiny head equipped with heavily hardened mandibles, a thorax that bears a large ventral sucker armed with radially arranged 'teeth', short legs with bunches of spines on the back, and tentacle-like extensions on its rear end… Such a larval morphology is bizarre, even for insects!
The cover featured a bizarre-looking South American insect called the ball-bearing treehopper.
