Conspicuousness, not eye mimicry, makes "eyespots" effective antipredator signals

By M. Stevens, C. Hardman, C. Stubbins. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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• Feeding by lepidopteran larvae is dangerous: A review of caterpillars’ chemical, physiological, morphological, and behavioral defenses against natural enemies (2012, background): “…eye-spots as anti-predator adaptations have been examined in various contexts, in both adult and larval Lepidoptera (Blest, 1957; Shirota, 1980; Stevens et al., 2007, 2008; Kodandaramalah et al., 2009), studies gathering further empirical data to test the robustness of this hypothesis would…”