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Female Dragonflies Are Totally Faking Their Deaths

Thanatosis or the act of playing dead is common in insects. The female moorland hawker dragonfly has taken the drama to the next level avoiding would be suitors by dropping out of the sky "dead."

Female Dragonflies Are Totally Faking Their Deaths

[DIGEST: FieldGuide, New Scientist, Ecology, JEB, Tispaquin]

With its bluish-gray waxy coating, extremely tough exoskeleton and penchant for playing dead, the Colorado Desert darkling beetle (Asbolus verrucosus) has earned the nickname blue death feigning beetle.

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