comic biology
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- Before being butterflies, butterflies go through a micro-evolution.
- It first start as caterpillars, which stops eating and just decides to hung upside down from a leaf and spin to form the cocoon.
- Cocoon
- The cocoon is a protective case that transforms the caterpillars body.
- In butterflies, sexual selection is much more stronger in males than in females.
- Eventually a butterfly emerges
- The genetic variation of butterflies are mainly based by the color of their scales, their size and shape too.
- Camouflage is one of the ways butterflies show adaptation to avoid their predators.
- Having the same or similar colors of their surroundings avoids predators to attack.
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- Many butterflies close their wings, since the borders of them have a more neutral color to hide the colors of their vibrant colored wings.
- Many depend on camouflage to survive. There is a process of blending and adapting to their enviornment.
- Natural selection benefits non-poisonous butterflies that have the same color patter of poisonous butterflies.
- Non-poisonous butterfly
- The name of the system is Batesian mimicry. A predator will avoid the mimic thinking that they encountered a poisonous butterfly, instead of a non-poisonous butterfly.
- Poisonous butterfly
- Female
- Both sexes respond to colors when courting, but males strongly resist to colour changes.
- Female butterflies store sperm and are fertile after one mating. As to the male, the reproductive success is proportional to the number of times he mates.
- Male
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