Many bees and stinging wasps, or aculeates, exhibit striking colour patterns or conspicuous
coloration, such as black and yellow stripes. Such coloration is often interpreted as an …

Many animals use visual traits as a predator defence. Understanding these visual traits from
the perspective of predators is critical in generating new insights about predator–prey …

Color mimicry is often celebrated as one of the most straightforward examples of evolution
by natural selection, as striking morphological similarity between species evolves in …

Stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) are a distinctive insect order whose members are
characterized by mimicking various plant tissues such as twigs, foliage and bark …

Abstract The Mutillidae (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) are a family of solitary ectoparasitoid
wasps, famous for their sting and conspicuous coloration. The occurrence of Müllerian …

Müllerian mimicry theory states that frequency-dependent selection should favour
geographical convergence of harmful species onto a shared colour pattern. As such …

Palatable (Batesian) mimics of unprofitable models could use behavioral mimicry to
compensate for the ease with which they can be visually discriminated or to augment an …

Mimicry is the phenotypic resemblance of one organism to another because the
resemblance is favored by selection from a signal receiver who perceives the resemblance …

Aposematism and mimicry are complex phenomena which have been studied extensively;
however, much of our knowledge comes from just a few focal groups, especially butterflies …

Current theory suggests that many signaling systems evolved from preexisting cues. In
aposematic systems, prey warning signals benefit both predator and prey. When the signal …