While pruning your rosebushes, you spend a few moments observing a honeybee hovering nearby. After it lands, however, you are able to discern that it only has two wings instead of four, and it lacks the distinct elbowed antennae of a bee – it’s a drone fly! What type of mimicry has this fly used to deceive you?

a. Emsleyan/Mertensian
b. Müllerian
c. Batesian
d. aposematic


c. Batesian

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a. true b. false

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