AUSTRALASIAN WARNING COLOURS
(#1 Distasteful and Poisonous)

If you are adapted to processing the poisons produced by the plants you eat and retaining them in your body tissues it pays to advertise this. If your body chemistry allows the production of distasteful chemicals then it pays to advertise. If you have a fierce disposition supported by various weapons – powerful jaws and stings – then it also pays to advertise. Advertising has tended to follow 2 principles – at least three pale colours (red/orange, yellow, or white) contrasting with
a darker colour (usually black). (go to #2 Sting & Bite)

Many more species available  
         
 

0206: Lycid Beetle
Cladophorus sp.
West Papua
0207: Geometrid Moth
Alydidae
W. Papua

0211: Stick Insect Warning Display
Phasmatidae
Sabah, Borneo
0212: Banded Millipede
Paradoxosomatidae
Oakview State Forest, Qld
0209: Poisonous Cicada
Cicadidae
Sabah, Borneo
0210: Giant Cicada
Cicadidae,
Sumatra, Indonesia
 
   
   
 
0204: Jewel Beetle
Nascioides parryi
Kangaroo Ground, Vic

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0205: Bombardier Beetle
Pheropsophus verticalis
Perth, WA
  
 
0203: Jewel Beetle
Castiarina acuminata
Ourimbah area, NSW

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0208: Leaf Cricket
Gryllidae
West Papua

 
       
 
 
 
     
           
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