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Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet, Zygaena lonicerae. Tufted Vetch. Vicia cracca, Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/4 1/250 iso: 400 Milovice, Czech Republic 7/1/2010
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Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet, Zygaena lonicerae. Tufted Vetch. Vicia cracca, Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/4 1/250 iso: 400 Milovice, Czech Republic 7/1/2010
Variable Burnet, Zygaena ephialtes Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/4.5 1/320 iso: 160 Srbsko, Czech Republic 7/23/2023
Six-spot Blue, Zygaena filipendulae mating Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/3.2 1/200 iso: 200 Srbsko, Czech Republic August 2, 2011
Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet, Zygaena lonicerae. Canon 100 2.8 100 2.8 f/2.8 1/200 iso: 200 Celakovice-Jirina, Czech Republic June 24, 2012
Black and red and poisonous! Burnet moths
Black and red and poisonous! Burnet moths
Five-spot Burnet (Zygaena trifolii) on Centaurea nigra L. flower. Galicia, Spain. Photo by Ray Cannon
What does this strikingly black and red coloured moth say to you? Eat me? Or, don’t touch me because I am poisonous? It should say the latter! Because bright, contrasting colours like this are aposematic. They are universal warning colours which apply throughout the animal kingdom; and if you…
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