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cool bug alert! Now I’m thinkin about Batesian mimicry (when a harmless species looks like a dangerous one to deter predators, such as the harmless viceroy butterfly mimicking the monarch, which is poisonous from its diet of milkweed)

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2023-03-28

tynamo/wishiwashi fusion
could also be a wishiwashi variant that evolved batesian mimicry of the eelektross line to ward off predators

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2023-02-04

Fay 26 is the alienopterid Teyia branislav. From what I read up on it, it uses batesian mimicry, pretending to be an ant to deter predators

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2021-10-28

WIP of our Protagonist Japhet, in full batesian mimicry mode. Their species, Virophage Impostor, is adapted to use pilfered bird genes to rapidly change its appearance in order to blend in with other VirMen (Viral hybrid humanoids).

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2021-02-20

Half-#PalaeoArt, half-speculative zoology art:

Batesian mimicry in the Devonian - aposematic Schinderhannes being mimicked by juvenile Machaeracanthus


https://t.co/AfeaAZPCuB

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2020-08-28

Prompt for — Morel mushrooms!

I'll admit my trypophobic ass did not *love* researching these dudes, but I did it!! I thought it would be fun to flip the true/false morel dynamic around for these guys, framing the harmless ones as batesian mimics! :D

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2020-02-12

It’s hard to compete with the cuteness of cutiefly. This little girl really looks like a small bee but cutiefly is a fly. It resembles the bee-fly in Japan. Bee-flies even lay eggs in carpenter bee nests. This mimicking appearance is called Batesian mimicry....

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2020-01-24

1937 Vintage Mimicry print, Kallima, Stick Insect, Oakleaf Butterfly, Chameleon, French Vintage Encyclopedia Larousse Original Framing https://t.co/MsBRKgpllW

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2018-10-06