Example: Which animals are mimics?

Mimicry. It refers to an animal that mimics the environment in terms of morphology and body color, such as a plant or a poisonous or inedible animal. If it is a non-poisonous animal, it simulates a poisonous or inedible animal, such as the paraking butterfly, which imitates the plexicept butterfly; If two poisonous animals imitate each other, it is called Müllerian mimicry, such as the common among the various moth species of the poison moth family.

Stick insect. Perching on a tree, in order to prevent the enemy from discovering it, pretending to be a tree branch is mimicry, that is, simulating the form of things around you to protect yourself;

Locusts are green in the wheat field in the spring and gray-yellow in the wheat field in the autumn, which is the protective color, and the color of their body changes with the color of the things around them, so as to protect themselves.

Squid. When encountering an enemy, it will flash brightly colored spots all over its body, warn the enemy not to approach, and play a role in intimidating the opponent and indicating that it is on alert.

Sea anemones and sea lilies use plant-like shapes as cover to catch food;

Horned cicadas (also called spiny insects), which can simulate rose thorns and feed;

Aphid-eating flies suck nectar and can stop in the air when flying, similar to bees;

Stick insects simulate the branches of bamboo, and their demeanor is realistic and vivid;

The cuckoo has no nest and lays its eggs in the reed warbler's nest, which is very similar to the eggs of the reed warbler, and the purpose is to ask the reed warbler to incubate the eggs on its behalf;

When the inchworm stops moving, it looks like a dry branch;

The tiger beetle is mimicked as a wasp in terms of size, shape, color, and other aspects;

In addition to the normal two eyes above the head, the eyeball frog also has two identical patterns on both sides of its back.

The dorsal fin of the dace whale has been mimicked into the appearance of seaweed, which can be used to attract small fish that feed on seaweed.

Flies and moths mimic bees and wasps and can escape predation from birds;

A butterfly adapted to the taste of a predator mimics another unpalatable or inedible butterfly that can escape;

Two kinds of unpalatable butterflies imitate each other and share the mortality caused by accidental ingestion by young birds during the learning period.

Some of the butterflies in the Brazilian jungle are similar in color spots to each other, and some inedible butterflies have the same color spots as other edible butterflies (Pink Butterfly family) that are very distant in taxonomic status;

Mimics: Leaf dropworms, leafhoppers, orchid mantises.

The larvae are venomous and have large brown markings on the body segments.

The group of protective and alert colors is: the tiger has markings and the stripes on the belly of the wasp.

Animals of protective color: polar bears, chameleons, zebras, green grasshoppers.

Mimicry is a term that can be used in biology to refer to the phenomenon in which some organisms mimic another organism in order to gain benefits.

For example, in many of the animals that are commonly used in nature, the inchworm moth looks like a branch, in fact, to be unobtrusive and to protect itself from predators. But many birds have learned their lesson, so they often peck at twigs.

For example, there are also some orchid petals in order to better pollinate, its petal shape, color and growth of more fluff to imitate female bees, so that you can attract male bees to pollinate, and finally can achieve better results, which is a typical example of mimicry to obtain benefits.