#aposematic — Public Fediverse posts

5th-instar large milkweed bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatus) on Asclepias incarnata. I know a lot of people go to great lengths to get rid of them, but they're gorgeous and not competing with the monarch larvae so I just let them be. #milkweed #bugs #aposematic #hemiptera #lygaeidae #insects #entomology

Butterflies mimic each other's flight behavior to avoid predators
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-butterflies-mimic-flight-behavior-predators.html

Pervasive mimicry in flight behavior among #aposematic butterflies https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300886121

"distantly-related #butterflies belonging to the same color pattern #mimicry group have more similar flight behavior than closely-related species that display different warning coloration."

New paper out with Ossi Nokelainen and Johanna Mappes, where we finally show that cryptic species are actually more variable than aposematic species! Long an assumption in models of evolution, but never empirically shown. Digitized collections of butterflies and moths show the way! #Lepidoptera #warning_coloration #aposematic #cryptic

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45329-5