Advertising your on-board weaponry has undoubted benefits against
predators.
Wasps with their stings and bugs with their bites and bad smells are
common
users of warning colours. back to #1 Distasteful
& Poisonous
Many more species available
0213:
Vespid Wasp
Abispa ephippium
Northern N.S.W. & QLD
0214:Velvet
Ant
Ephutomorpha venusta
Perth, WA
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0215:
Reduviid Bug
Havinthus sp.
Walcott Inlet, WA
0044:
Ground Assassin Bug
Pirates sp.
Mt. Whaleback, WA
0217:
Yellow-speckled Ground Huntsman
Neosparassus sp.
Cheyne Beach, WA
0218:
South-western Red and Black Spider
Nicodamus mainae
South-western WA,