Camouflage and Mimicry
Mimicry:
-The close resemblance of an organism to another living thing or the
environment.
“Nothing here but us loaves of bread.”
Monarch butterfly
Poisonous
Viceroy Butterfly
Harmless
Coral snake
Poisonous
Milk snake
Harmless
“Red and
yellow, kill a
fellow.
Red and black,
venom lack.”
Red cobra
Poisonous
Atlas moth
Harmless
Can You See Me?
See if you can find the organism in the slide
Peppered Moths
In England there are white
trees that peppered moths
were adapted to blend with.
During the Industrial
Revolution humans started
burning lots of coal and it
turned the trees black.
Because of this the white
moths started getting eaten,
but darker moths started
surviving.
Nowadays we don’t burn coal
as much and the trees are
white again, and the moths
have turned back.
Gecko (sp.)
Great horned owl
Orchid mantis
Stingray
Lichen moth
Gecko (sp.)
Six-Eyed Sand Spider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLw-9dpHtcU
Potential Environments for Assignment
• Movie theater floor
• Jell-O salad
• Inside a computer
• Ice cream sundae
• Inside a recycle bin
• Garbage dump
• Your locker
For some of you, these last
two aren’t very different