Velvet Ants' Rare Ultrablack Markings Are So Dark They Absorb Nearly All Visible Light
The creature world goes in hard for impressive colours , from those thatblend inperfectly with their surround to those bear tostand outand seem robed to impress . However , young inquiry has disclose an louse species with markings so disastrous , they ’re classed as ultrablack , absorb nearly all seeable light . The species in question isTraumatomutilla bifurca , a type of velvet pismire – which is , somewhat confusingly , actually a species ofwasp ....