how do insects evolve patterns like this? is it like one was born with similar and it and its offsprings survived at a higher rate and passed it on due to predators not attacking so it slowly became common?

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Anonymous Sun Apr 16 13:45:31 2023 No.15358142 [Reply] [Original]

how do insects evolve patterns like this?
is it like one was born with similar and it and its offsprings survived at a higher rate and passed it on due to predators not attacking so it slowly became common?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 14:05:43 2023 No.15358180 >>15358142 looks like snek https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batesian_mimicry

Strange Love Sun Apr 16 14:30:59 2023 No.15358234
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>>15358142

Conditional high genetic variability ... insect has genomic mechanisms which allow for heavy and mostly random rearrangement to create many different patterns in its offspring. However, these rearrangement mechanisms are usually suppressed, inactive ... and only activate in a few individuals in each generation. This way new patterns can be adapted while the successful ones are still mostly "fixed" and stably passed on. You gotta think gene pool level here, not "individual" evolution so much ...

>>15358180

>looks like snek

Yessss ... :}~<

>>	Cult of Jealous bodhl Sun Apr 16 16:31:05 2023 No.15358613 >>15358142 Basically yes The predators that attack them don't have sophisticated vision so they were mere likely to be tricked than us by the Inbetweeners Eventually it's good enough that we can't spot it immediately

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 17:22:39 2023 No.15358807 >>15358142 They speak and fuck in chitin mixed with what they eat.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 17:25:06 2023 No.15358816 >>15358807 Like a human uses the larynx to talk, the lepidoptera uses the wings. Anthropods apparently favoring chitin alterations to adapt situations.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 17:29:55 2023 No.15358832 >>15358807 >>15358816 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidoptera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_coloration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_(insect_anatomy) Scales n shit

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