A child once answered the question, “What is a skeleton?” this way: “A skeleton is a person with the inside outside and the outside off.” So maybe we can describe a bug like this: “It’s an animal with the inside outside and the inside in.” Bugs are all characterized as “exoskeletons” — their skeletons are [...]

The Viceroy Butterfly is a harmless butterfly that mimics the Monarch Butterfly. What is mimicry and why would an animal do it? Mimicry usually occurs when one animal is poisonous to the predator so another animal has evolved to look like it. Birds evolved over time to instinctively identify the pattern of the Monarch Butterfly [...]