10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APOSEMATICALLY»
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Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey ...
Some bees are aposematically colored. Most bumble bees have bright patches
of yellow, red, or white pubescence superimposed on the black base color of the
body. Carpenter bees, Xylocopa spp., are often shiny black in color, and most ...
David L. Evans, Justin O. Schmidt, 1990
Although all monarch butterflies are aposematically coloured, an individual may
or may not be unpalatable depending on the level of cardiac glycoside in the
particular milkweed plant it fed upon as a larva. In an interesting coevolutionary ...
3
Plant-Environment Interactions: From Sensory Plant Biology ...
He proposed that if herbivores primarily orient their feeding selection visually,
these patterns should function aposematically. Wiens (1978) gave several
examples of poisonous plants with patterned leaf coloration, such as Caladium
and ...
4
Alkaloids: Biochemistry, Ecology,and Medicinal Applications
In the marine environment, nudibranchs such as the aposematically colored
Glossodoris quadricolor (Mebs, 1985) provide a vivid example for this
counteradaption of specialists to their prey organisms. In the terrestrial
environment numerous ...
Margaret F. Roberts, Michael Wink, 1998
Many tiger moths (Arctiidae) are nocturnal and tympanate, and some are
distasteful and aposematically colored (Bissett et al. 1960). Their coloration
presumably protects them during the day, and the trains of ultrasonic clicks
emitted by some ...
Thomas H. Kunz, M. Brock Fenton, 2006
6
The Insects: An Outline of Entomology
A complex range of mimetic relationships are based on mimicry of lycid beetles (
see Plate 6.5), which are often aposematically odoriferous and warningly colored
. The black and orange Australian lycid Metriorrhynchus rhipidius is protected ...
P. J. Gullan, P. S. Cranston, 2009
7
Insect Predator-Prey Dynamics: Ladybird Beetles and ...
However, many if not all the species that are not aposematically coloured also
contain alkaloids. Thus it is likely that these chemicals could be important in
protecting ladybirds against invertebrate predators. Generally the eggs of
animals are ...
8
Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society
Pyrrhocorids are medium-sized to large bugs, from about 8.0 to more than 30.0
mm long, and usually aposematically colored red, yellow, and white. They are
distinguished by the lack of ocelli, a reduced metathoracic scent-gland opening,
two ...
Robert G. Foottit, Peter H. Adler, 2009
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Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles
A mimic takes advantage of an aposematically colored species that is truthfully
advertising its high cost of capture. Batesian mimicry occurs when a nontoxic or
otherwise nonprotected species mimics a toxic or protected species, whereas ...
Laurie J. Vitt, Janalee P. Caldwell, 2013
10
Australasian Nudibranch News
19 species provided strong evidence that phyllidiids advertise their presence
during daylight hours and are most likely aposematically coloured. Only one
species, Phyllidiopsis cardinalis, was always hidden on the underside of coral
rubble.
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «APOSEMATICALLY»
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aposematically is used in the context of the following news items.
This Texas redhead centipede is freaking the Internet out
The redhead doesn't always have a red head; being aposematically colored, the body and head can take on a variety of red and black patterns. «Big News Network.com, Jul 15»
How a toad can turn you into a prince
It's aposematically coloured.” I reply. Many species have aposematic colours — bright colours and markings that make them easy for predators ... «NatGeo News Watch, May 11»
