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INSECT DEFENSE


​For insects, danger lurks everywhere.  Insects are a favorite food choice of many animals – birds, lizards, frogs, snakes, fish, other insects -- yet they thrive.  This site explores the various strategies insects use to keep from being eaten: camouflage, warning colors, mimicry, eyespots, posture reversal, and poisonous hairs.  

Click on each category below to see examples of that defense strategy.  
Double-toothed Prominent (Nerice bidentata)
CAMOUFLAGE
Cardinal Jumping Spider (Phidippus cardinalis)
WARNING COLORS
Clearwing MOTH (Vitacea admiranda)
MIMICRY
Spicebush Swallowtail Caterpillar (Papilio troilus)
EYESPOTS
Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus)

POSTURE REVERSAL

Saddleback Caterpillar (Acharia stimu

POISONOUS CATERPILLARS

Larger Florida Mantis eating Gulf Fritillary
DEFENSE IS NOT PERFECT
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  • Home
  • About
  • Birds
  • INSECTS
    • CICADAS!
    • Costa Rica Insects
    • Texas Insects
    • Insect Defense >
      • Camouflage
      • Warning Colors
      • Mimicry
      • Eyespots
      • Posture Reversal
      • Poisonous Caterpillars
      • Insect Defense is Not Perfect
    • INSECT METAMORPHOSIS: COMPLETE
    • INSECT METAMORPHOSIS: INCOMPLETE
  • Land, Sea, & Sky
  • Contact
  • TOTALLY COOL!
    • BEETLES
    • MOTHS