Brain Junk

It's easy to believe that a snake might be a deadly mimic. But butterflies that start life as carnivorous caterpillars? Oh heck yeah!Show Notes:YouTube BBC: Ants Adopt a CaterpillarYouTube Entomological Society of America: Ants and BluesThe Pattern of Social Parasitism in Maculinea teleius Butterfly Is Driven by the Size and Spatial Distribution of the Host Ant NestsEntomology Today: Carnivorous Caterpillars Fool Ants by Sounding like QueensPLOS One: Variation in Butterfly Larval Acoustics as a Strategy to Infiltrate and Exploit Host Ant Colony ResourcesScientific American: Actual audio of the caterpillar mimicking an ant Avian deception using an elaborate caudal lure in Pseudocerastes urarachnoides (Serpentes: Viperidae)Herpetological.org Pseudocerastes urarachnoides: the ambush specialist (great pictures of the viper!)Discover: Meet the SnakeTranscript:00:00:03] Speaker A: Welcome to brain junk. I'm Amy Barton.[00:00:05] Speaker B: And I'm Trace Kerr. And today is everything you never knew you wanted to kno