EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Detected prey can avoid an attack by way of warning signals (aposematism), e.g., bright coloration as a sign of toxicity. Such warning signals are basically the opposite of camouflage, but are also widespread. Poison dart frogs (Dendrobatidae) and fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) are well-known examples.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aposematic color patterns are found everywhere throughout the insects, from black-and yellow-striped stinging wasps to black and red, bitter-tasting lady beetles, or brightly colored, poisonous tropical butterflies.

Detailed explanation-3: -Aposematic (warning) coloration is a biological phenomenon in which poisonous, dangerous or otherwise unpalatable organisms visually advertise these qualities to other animals (Cott 1940; Edmunds 1974; Gittleman and Harvey 1980; Ruxton et al. 2004).

Detailed explanation-4: -Many organisms use warning, or aposematic, coloration to signal their unprofitability to potential predators. Aposematically colored prey are highly visually conspicuous. There is considerable empirical support that conspicuousness promotes the effectiveness of the aposematic signal.