The masquerade party never ends for these ladies.
The females of an Asian swallowtail butterfly species known as the common Mormon often mimic the appearance of another species of butterfly that is toxic for predators to eat, with strikingly similar coloration and markings on the wings.
The evolutionary skullduggery tricks birds that otherwise would be happy to munch these insects into keeping them off the menu, thinking they are inedible.
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