VERTEBRATE - INSECT INTERACTIONS
          COLORATION

CRYPSIS -> LEAF MIMICRY -- Katydid that looks like a leaf



CRYPSIS for a PREDATOR -- very large mantid that blends in with the background; an AMBUSH Predator

                     Lichens/Moss 


                      Feralia major

 

 

FALSE HEAD COLORATION -- Seems to work!!

STARTLE DISPLAY

SPIDER and SNAKE MIMICRY 


              Siamusotima aranea


An APOSEMATIC DISPLAY
-- by a romaline Grasshopper


 

WASP/BEE MIMICRY

BAT AVOIDANCE


Pteronotus personatus
(Chiroptera: Mormoopidae) chasing a Melipotis sp. (Lepidoptera: Erebidae)
Palo Verde, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, March, 1985.

SAFETY in NUMBERS


Eurema proterpia puddling club, Pena Blanca area, west of Nogales, Arizona, August, 1996.