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Animals with Warning Colors

Animals with Warning Colors

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Animals with Warning Colors
Created by

Juan DiTrani

Website 879 participants 1,589 spottings

Many animals use colors in the opposite way of camouflage. They have bright colors wich make them highly conspicous on the environment. Potential predators then can relate and remember these colors to unpleasant or dangerous animals to eat. This survival strategy, named Aposematism, is beneficial for the prey and the predator, and have been reported in many animals like insects, frogs, snakes and aquatic animals.

Animals with Warning Colors

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Southern Coral Snake; Amazon Lava Lizard LeonardoMB 5 0 Southern Coral Snake; Amazon Lava Lizard
Milkweed Bug Species ars886928 1 1 Milkweed Bug Species
Blister Beetle ars886928 1 0 Blister Beetle
Blister Beetle ars886928 2 0 Blister Beetle
Euglyphis Moth LeonardoMB 2 0 Euglyphis Moth
Spiny Orbweaver Tukup 4 0 Spiny Orbweaver
Five-spotted Velvet Ant(female) thewndrr 3 0 Five-spotted Velvet Ant(female)
Great Banded Furrow Bee thewndrr 1 0 Great Banded Furrow Bee
Red-belted Sand Wasp thewndrr 1 0 Red-belted Sand Wasp
Parasitic wasp female Mark Ridgway 6 0 Parasitic wasp female
Red & Black spider Mark Ridgway 7 0 Red & Black spider
Western Ribbon Coral Snake Tukup 7 4 Western Ribbon Coral Snake
Leaf footed bug Mark Ridgway 5 0 Leaf footed bug
Unidentified thewndrr 2 0 Unidentified
Wasp mimic 'Thick Headed' fly Mark Ridgway 3 1 Wasp mimic 'Thick Headed' fly
Wattle ladybug mimic Mark Ridgway 9 2 Wattle ladybug mimic
Lycid mimic click beetle Mark Ridgway 9 1 Lycid mimic click beetle
Seven Spot Ladybird Beetle Steven Sheppard 1 0 Seven Spot Ladybird Beetle
Red Salamander LisaPowers 15 5 Red Salamander
Pipevine Swallowtail Ornithoptera80 11 0 Pipevine Swallowtail
Tricolor soldier beetle (m) Mark Ridgway 3 0 Tricolor soldier beetle (m)
Unidentified Gaia80 2 0 Unidentified
Gulf fritillary Ornithoptera80 8 2 Gulf fritillary
Monarch Butterfly Steven Sheppard 3 0 Monarch Butterfly
Velvet ant, (Cow killer) Ornithoptera80 7 2 Velvet ant, (Cow killer)
Gulf fritillary Ornithoptera80 14 3 Gulf fritillary
Passion butterfly ornithoptera80 2 1 Passion butterfly
Aquatic Coral Snake Tukup 12 9 Aquatic Coral Snake
Passion butterfly/Gulf fritillary Ornithoptera80 9 2 Passion butterfly/Gulf fritillary
Gulf fritillary caterpillar Ornithoptera80 6 0 Gulf fritillary caterpillar
Squash vine borer Ornithoptera80 12 2 Squash vine borer
Two-lined spittlebug Saturniidae27 1 0 Two-lined spittlebug
Gulf fritillary butterfly ornithoptera80 4 0 Gulf fritillary butterfly
Salt marsh moth (♂) ornithoptera80 8 0 Salt marsh moth (♂)
Fort-tailed katydid, (nymph) Ornithoptera80 2 0 Fort-tailed katydid, (nymph)
Reakirt's blue Saturniidae27 4 0 Reakirt's blue
Eight-spotted flea beetle Saturniidae27 2 0 Eight-spotted flea beetle
Large milkweed bug Ornithoptera80 5 2 Large milkweed bug
Southern Black Widow Spider Tukup 4 0 Southern Black Widow Spider
Monarch Butterfly SFShep 1 2 Monarch Butterfly
Turkish gecko Saturniidae27 6 4 Turkish gecko
Question mark butterfly ornithoptera80 14 6 Question mark butterfly
Blue-fronted dancer Saturniidae27 4 4 Blue-fronted dancer
Question mark caterpillar ornithoptera80 3 0 Question mark caterpillar
Monarch butterfly Steven Sheppard 2 0 Monarch butterfly
Gulf fritillary, (♀) ornithoptera80 3 0 Gulf fritillary, (♀)
Rover firefly Saturniidae27 1 0 Rover firefly
Tortoise Beetle (common metallic-striped gold form) Muckpuk 9 3 Tortoise Beetle (common metallic-striped gold form)
Question mark caterpillar, (3rd instar) ornithoptera80 12 6 Question mark caterpillar, (3rd instar)
Gulf fritillary ornithoptera80 2 0 Gulf fritillary

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