It always boggles me how something like this evolves. Isn’t there a very long period (tens or hundreds of thousands of years) where it doesn’t look like the host termites at all? What selective pressures keep it evolving until it looks exactly like the host species?
Also why would rove beetles be better at this than others, like the army ant example? Do they just have an extra-evolutionary ability to mimic?
Also why would rove beetles be better at this than others, like the army ant example? Do they just have an extra-evolutionary ability to mimic?