Mutillidae durable, the exoskeleton is also round, making it more difficult for predators to pierce it with attempted stings or bites. During all the trials that led to the fracture of a velvet ant’s exoskeleton, a total of 4 times, resulted in the death of that velvet ant within 24 hours. Thus aside from protection from predators, the exoskeleton provides a function maintaining moisture control. Male mutillids fly in search of females; after mating, the female enters a host insect nest, typically a ground-nesting bee or wasp burrow, and deposits one egg near each larva or pupa. Only a few species
Ant on a rubber rope the end of each second. Let formula_16 be the proportion of the distance from the starting-point to the target-point which the ant has covered at time "t". So formula_17. In the first second the ant travels distance formula_18, which is formula_19 of the distance from the starting-point to the target-point (which is formula_20 throughout the first second). When the rope stretches suddenly and instantaneously, formula_16 remains unchanged, because the ant moves along with the rubber where it is at that moment. So formula_22. In the next second the ant travels distance formula_18 again, which is formula_24 of the distance from