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The Common Crow

Euploea core

Habitat:

It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar and Australia.

Notes:

The protection mechanisms of the Common Crow, as of the other Danaids, and indeed of all unpalatable butterflies, result in predators learning this memorable aspect at first hand. Predators soon learn to associate the patterns and habits of the butterfly species with unpalatability and to avoid ingesting them in future. This advantage of protection has led to a number of edible butterfly species, referred to as the mimic, evolving to resemble the inedible butterfly, which is referred to as the model. The resemblance is not only in butterfly markings, but also in behavioural and flight patterns. This form of mimicry where an edible species mimics an inedible species is called as Batesian mimicry. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euploea_cor...)

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4 Comments

VincentVanur
VincentVanur 11 years ago

Thank you, YukoChartraw

VincentVanur
VincentVanur 11 years ago

Thank you, Maria dB

YukoChartraw
YukoChartraw 11 years ago

Gorgeous!

Maria dB
Maria dB 11 years ago

nice series

VincentVanur
Spotted by
VincentVanur

Tamil Nadu, India

Spotted on Nov 24, 2010
Submitted on Dec 27, 2012

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