Pattern and coloration
Scientific, Latin name for moths and butterflies Lepidoptera can be translated as
scale-wing. If you catch a butterfly in your hand, it can be seen on the fingers of delicate mieniący the pollen. These are tiny scales that fell from his wings.Każda scale can be colored. Scales are mounted on the wings and body, like the tiles on the roof. In this way creates the patterns and colors on their wings. Butterflies and moths, in addition to flowers, presents the broadest range of colors found in the world of living organisms. Wing coloration pattern has its biological significance. In some species, thanks to him is to identify partners during mating, whereas in others it functions as camouflage, so predators can not be so easy to hunt. Sometimes, the camouflage is so good, that sitting and not moving a moth or a butterfly looks like a leaf. piece of bark or bird droppings. This is called mime-tyzm. resemblance or insect species to an environment in which he resides.
Since the moths and butterflies do not sting and bite, they have developed many ways passive safety from predators that hunt them. Bright, vivid, bright colors are characteristic of insect poisonous or inedible. Ubarwionym be bright, it is to publish all - not fondle me, because I'm disgusting, nothing you do not come from that, in addition to poison you. Many butterflies have poison in his body, is often still a remnant of the larval period when caterpillars żerowały the poisonous plants. Such insects are distasteful to birds or other animals, which once experienced sorry, no more hunt for victims of this type or similarly colored. Some poisonous species are not configured to lepidopteran insect species, or even poisonous person - have similar colors, shapes and patterns on their wings. Such a phenomenon is known as mimicry Bates. Many species of moths and butterflies have on their wings live colored stains, eye-shaped larger animals. These stains may scare away small animals, which are too approached the seated insect. When the moth is sitting quietly, colored spots on the wings are not visible, but when it is concerned by some animal, suddenly spread wings. Exterior color spots deter attacker (who at this moment is convinced that attacked some larger animal), and the moth uses this moment of surprise to escape.