Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxiv
First evidence for an aposematic function of a very common color pattern in small insects.
R. Mora-Castro, M. Alfaro-Cordoba, M. Hernandez-Jimenez…·P. E. Hanson
The paper tests if a common black-orange-black color pattern in parasitoid wasps functions as aposematic coloration by observing predator behavior and conducting spectral and toxicity analyses.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0237288