Swallowtail caterpillar. A brightly coloured swallowtail caterpillar (Papilio machaon) crawling across an umbelliferae flower. The conspicuous colours

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Swallowtail caterpillar. A brightly coloured swallowtail caterpillar (Papilio machaon) crawling across an umbelliferae flower. The conspicuous colours are a warning to predators that the caterpillar has distasteful flesh.

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Photo credit: © CLAUDE NURIDSANY & MARIE PERENNOU/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: animal, aposematic, caterpilla, caterpillar, colour, colours, defence, insect, insecta, invertebrate, invertebrates, machaon, nature, papilio, swallowtail, type, warning, wildlife, zoology