Image of the Day: Toxic Taste
The skipper butterfly caterpillar (Pyrrhopyge thericles) is toxic to predators because it feeds on poisonous Vismia plants.
Oct 23, 2015
SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, ANNETTE AIELLO(See “Differential sequestration of a cytotoxic vismione from the host plant Vismia baccifera by Periphoba arcaei and Pyrrhopyge thericles,” Journal of Chemical Ecology, 2015.)
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