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The detectability of the colour pattern in the aposematic firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus: an image‐based experiment with human ‘predators’

2012-04-01

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Crypsis and aposematism are often regarded as two opposite protective strategies. However, there is large variation in prey appearance within both strategies. In this article, we investigated the conspicuousness of the aposematic red‐and‐black firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus, by presenting images of natural and digitally manipulated phenotypes in their natural habitat on a computer screen to human ‘predators’, and co...

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Literature Corpus work: 84b8eddb-41a0-5c58-bc62-4aa12774b3f4
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01834.x

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