Via Lee Dugatkin, some very cool evolutionary biology. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Such nice example of correlational selection.
aug 1, 2025, 10:30 pm • 1 0 • view
VERY interesting. I am not sure I will look at a butterfly the same way again. Looking now for the backward "heads"
aug 1, 2025, 10:45 pm • 1 0 • view
so should i expect to see a bunch of these with that end bitten off?
aug 1, 2025, 10:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh yeah, swallowtails (which are big and showy and not particularly fast) have bits of wing missing all the time. Not always the hindwings, and there's no way of telling which predators were confused vs. simply too slow.
aug 1, 2025, 11:17 pm • 3 0 • view
hmm.. now i'm thinking. we need a survey of butterfly wing bites. like
aug 1, 2025, 11:20 pm • 5 0 • view
The first author @tarunyumnam.bsky.social is here on bluesky!
aug 2, 2025, 3:44 pm • 3 0 • view