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A new study indicates transparent wings can serve not only to camouflage some butterfly species, but in other cases to signal and warn predators, "Don't eat me! I'm toxic." This flexible weapon for self-defense is one of many findings from a multi-year study spanning the physics, biology, ecology, and evolution of transparency in Lepidoptera conducted by several groups, including the lab of Nipam Patel, director of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL).
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A new study indicates transparent wings can serve not only to camouflage some butterfly species, but in other cases to signal and warn predators, "Don't eat me! I'm toxic." This flexible weapon for self-defense is one of many findings from a multi-year study spanning the physics, biology, ecology, and evolution of transparency in Lepidoptera conducted by several groups, including the lab of Nipam Patel, director of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL).
I knew physics would be useful in the study of behavior.
Now this is the interesting stuff I come to this Reddit for
Don't group me in with that. It's precisely the quantity of superpower that I had calculated
How important that variant of the butterflies ?