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p.1 #1 · Caterpillar update

First shot from a month ago, the rest over the last few days of the only surviving cabbage white caterpillar I could find on the rocket salad leaves.

Brian v.

Oct 20, 2012 at 07:26 AM

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p.1 #2 · Caterpillar update

Good set, but I really like the first one Brian.
Douglas

Oct 20, 2012 at 12:22 PM

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p.1 #3 · Caterpillar update

great set brian.

Oct 20, 2012 at 02:10 PM

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p.1 #4 · Caterpillar update

Thanks Douglas and denis for the comments

Brian v.

Oct 21, 2012 at 06:51 AM

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p.1 #5 · Caterpillar update

Very fine set, with a particular appreciation of #2. Are we witnessing genuine truth in advertising in the aposematic coloration? If so, I hope it isn't obtained from these salad leaves!!!

Oct 22, 2012 at 09:12 AM

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p.1 #6 · Caterpillar update

Superb shots as always

Oct 22, 2012 at 08:05 PM

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p.1 #7 · Caterpillar update

Thanks again for the comments

R.E - had to look up aposematic - " (of the coloration of certain distasteful or poisonous animals) characterized by bright conspicuous markings, which predators recognize and learn to avoid; warning"

Not sure if these are poisonous- they are certainly hard to find in the leaves and a few years ago I watched a wasp tear apart a whole colony of them.

Brian V.

Oct 23, 2012 at 06:04 AM

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p.1 #8 · Caterpillar update

The word is taken from the literature that I am just reading by the great British naturalists like Hugh Cott, Malcolm Edmunds, etc... Ruxton et al provide a good recent summary. This may be an instance of false advertising, but the wasps warning coloration certainly doesn't appear to be.

Oct 24, 2012 at 08:58 PM

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