Aposematic Insects

- bright contrasting colours (usually red & black or yellow & black) warn that the insect is distasteful or poisonous -

Fire Bug, Pyrrhocoris apterus.

7-spot Ladybird, Coccinella 7-punctata.

Caterpillar of the Monarch Butterfly,
Danaus plexippus.1

Caterpillar of the Cinnabar Moth, Tyria jacobaeae.

Cinabar Moth, Tyria jacobaeae.

Common Wasp, Vespula vulgaris.2
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