A really pretty little Viceroy I pinned a while back.
Viceroys are Müllerian mimics* of the larger and similarly colored Monarch Butterflies
(*Müllerian mimicry is a form of honest signaling, I.e., “I’m brightly colored so I taste nasty/am poisonous!” which stands in contrast to Batesian mimicry, which is a false signal, I.e., “I’m brightly colored like that Monarch, so I must be poisonous… 😈”)
















