Over there! Eat them instead!

A single golden egg bug can lower its risk of predator attack by lingering near a mating pair, report Scandinavian researchers.

Golden egg bugs, Phyllomorpha laciniata, have intrigued scientists because both males and females permit even unrelated females to deposit eggs on their backs. That load of eggs increases the chance that an ant will attack, report Arja Kaitala of the University of Oulu in Finland and Annkristin H.