Sunday, July 12, 2009

a true monarch



I would be remiss if I did not mention the most famous practitioner of aposematism. (See stay away!) Volumes have been written about this milkweed sap imbiber. It is a true monarch, a long distance migrate that for thousands of years disappeared to the south every fall, only to return the next spring.

But where they went was a mystery for centuries.

2 comments:

Vickie said...

Beautiful image! All that orange and yellow. I'm also thinking aposematism is a BIG word!

Stephen Lyn Bales said...

Yes. Big word. Science seems to love big words.

I hope you are well.