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they hide so that they can either catch their dinner or hide from being a dinner!! some animals can hide easier than others like tigers for inmstance they can hide very well because their fur is camouflaged.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 15y agocamoflauged wings. some even use bastian mimicry, mimicing harmful animals by ulitizing warning coloration but lacks the defense of being dangerous as the model animal. For example, the scarlet king snake mimics the venomous coral snake by the colors on both species. Animals are fooled to think the scarlet k.s is the coral snake and leave the animal be. However, the s.k.s uses the color to avoid predators without having the harmful poision of the competitior. Butterflies use this technique too!!!
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∙ 14y agoThey don't. But those moths that don't match their background are more likely to be seen and eaten by predators than those that do match. This selection pressure changes the composition of the gene pool. It's called evolution by natural selection. Of course other anti-predator mechanisms exist.
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∙ 11y agobecause they have to hide from predators and they hide to rest there wings
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How do the peppered moths avoid their predators?
they adapt by the sence of smell hear or even taste ther predator to see were they are
What are the two types of peppered moths?
Black peppered moths and white peppered moths
How does the story of the pepper moth demonstrate evolution?
The gene for dark coloration in peppered moths may be associated with camouflage. If the moth lives in a darker habitat, then the ability to blend in meant that the darker moths survived over time.
What do baby moths eat?
Baby moths eat wood and grown-up moths eat cotton
What do you call a group of moths?
Moths are very similar to butterflies. The group of insects that butterflies and moths belong to is the Lepidoptera. A group of only moths are called a wainscot.
Why do moths have camouflage?
moths have camouflage so that a lizard wont eat it
What’s an external adaptation peppered moths have?
Peppered moths have Camouflage and Mimicry, the use of Camouflage is to hide from predators.
How do moths and butterflies protect themselves?
Camouflage and fluttering in a rapid and unpredictable manner
How do moths survive in the winter?
Moths are able to survive through some of their adaptations. These include the ability to camouflage themselves and because they can fly with precision.
Peppered moths use the adaptation of camouflage as protection from predators They may have a variety of colors or shades but before the Industrial Revolution they were typically white with black?
The population of light-colored moths decreased and the population of dark-colored moths increased.
How do moths camoflouge?
To hide from sharp-eyed predators like birds, many moths have cryptic coloration (camouflage) which makes them difficult to see against a particular background. Many moths have the color and patterns of tree bark. A moth's cryptic coloration protects it from birds and other preditors.
How could camouflage affect Evolution?
Camouflage is such an important effect to Evolution. E.G Peppered moths - Before the industrial revolution there was no pollution, the moths use to be white, so they can camouflage easily without being captured by predators. But after the industrial revolution, since there was lots of pollution, the moths changed from white to black, to adapt by camouflaging, to be less vulnerable by predators - this is an example of evolution aka natural selection ( organisms with characteristics that make them better adapted to the environment have a better survival, therefore are able to reproduce and survive, and the certain gene responsible for the characteristics is passed on to generations).
What caused a change in color of the majority of London gypsy moths?
They evolved in response to changing selection pressures (specifically predation by birds) as levels of pollution changed. The pollution reduced the effectiveness of the moths natural camouflage, resulting in the more visible moths being eaten by birds in large quantities, the less visible moths then were the only ones reproducing and their color became dominate in the population.
How the moths protects or defends itself from its enemies?
The vast majority of moths do not have any kind of defense mechanism, per se. Rather, they use camouflage to avoid predators.
How moth defend itself?
Some moths have something called camouflage and they can blend into leaves, tree bark and they can open their wings to reveal a huge "face" and it's enemies get frightened.
What means could be used to return the environment of the peppered moths to its original state?
The peppered moth camouflages into the environment it inhabits. This camouflage returns the moth to it's original environmental state and protects it from predators.
What are the Islamic moths of islam?
There are no Islamic moths. Maybe butterflies, but no moths.
