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Is that a hornet or is nature playing tricks on you? | The Wildlife Trusts (www.wildlifetrusts.org)

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This Insect Week (June 23rd to 29th), The Wildlife Trusts and Royal Horticultural Society are asking gardeners to look out for hornet look-a-likes, as part of their ‘Be a hoverfly hero’ campaign.

According to insect experts at the two organisations, nature can be canny: what you think is a hornet may be a hoverfly disguised as its more fearsome fellow pollinator – both do important jobs in your garden.

These creatures are deploying a cunning art – Batesian mimicry – named after explorer Henry Walter Bates. Whilst exploring Amazon rainforests, he noted that many species had evolved to look scarier than they actually were, to avoid being eaten by predators.

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