Ask an actual butterfly about its colorful attire ... predators—it makes the chrysalis "hard to detect in a complicated background," Prudic says. A hungry bird may even think it looks like ...

Ethan Newman of Stellenbosch University camouflaged himself in colourful T-shirts to blend into his field of study - clusters of red and orange Disa flowers pollinated by a single butterfly species.

These findings suggest that ivory is the main cause for generating colourful patterns in butterfly wings as opposed to previously thought cortex. Earlier, ivory escaped detection possibly due ...