July 7th, 2015: Not a Snake

xoxoxoBruce · 07-06-2015, 10:01 PM

Not a snake, looks like one but it’s just a Chrysalis mimicking the appearance of a snake.
The Pupa inside starts twerking when it detects something is out there, which makes the Chrysalis wiggle adding to the snake illusion.

If the ruse is successful, after 13 days of fooling predators, a Dynastor darius butterfly emerges.

In case you hadn’t noticed, bugs be sneaky.

monster · 07-06-2015, 11:00 PM

great pic

Gravdigr · 07-07-2015, 03:05 PM

Beautiful plumage.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-07-2015, 03:29 PM

The poor thing spends 9 days in the egg stage, 40 days in five larval stages, and 13 days as a pupa, before emerging as a butterfly. After all that, it's finally time to party hearty, right? Nope. It won't live very long because as near as they can figure it doesn't have any way to eat. After all that trouble getting gussied up it must have some way of whispering sweet nothings though, because it must get laid or they would have died out.

BigV · 07-07-2015, 04:37 PM

It boggles my small, smooth brain to try to comprehend the sequence and scale of *random mutations* that produced a reproductive advantage of sufficient success to create this result.

How does the butterfly even "know" about snakes anyhow?

xoxoxoBruce · 07-07-2015, 04:38 PM

Quote:

How does the butterfly even "know" about snakes anyhow?

Wikipedia.

Happy Monkey · 07-07-2015, 05:27 PM

The butterfly doesn't know about snakes; the predators who might otherwise have eaten the butterfly's ancestors knew about snakes.

Clodfobble · 07-07-2015, 05:48 PM

All the chrysalises that looked like hornswogglers and rattletats and humperdinks and ficklers and snozzberries got eaten, so all that was left were the chrysalises that looked like snakes.

07-06-2015, 10:01 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	July 7th, 2015: Not a Snake Not a snake, looks like one but it’s just a Chrysalis mimicking the appearance of a snake. The Pupa inside starts twerking when it detects something is out there, which makes the Chrysalis wiggle adding to the snake illusion. If the ruse is successful, after 13 days of fooling predators, a Dynastor darius butterfly emerges. In case you hadn’t noticed, bugs be sneaky. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-06-2015, 11:00 PM	#2
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	great pic __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-07-2015, 03:05 PM	#3
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Beautiful plumage. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

07-07-2015, 03:29 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The poor thing spends 9 days in the egg stage, 40 days in five larval stages, and 13 days as a pupa, before emerging as a butterfly. After all that, it's finally time to party hearty, right? Nope. It won't live very long because as near as they can figure it doesn't have any way to eat. After all that trouble getting gussied up it must have some way of whispering sweet nothings though, because it must get laid or they would have died out. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-07-2015, 04:37 PM	#5
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	It boggles my small, smooth brain to try to comprehend the sequence and scale of random mutations that produced a reproductive advantage of sufficient success to create this result. How does the butterfly even "know" about snakes anyhow? __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

07-07-2015, 05:27 PM	#7
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	The butterfly doesn't know about snakes; the predators who might otherwise have eaten the butterfly's ancestors knew about snakes. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

07-07-2015, 05:48 PM	#8
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	All the chrysalises that looked like hornswogglers and rattletats and humperdinks and ficklers and snozzberries got eaten, so all that was left were the chrysalises that looked like snakes. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

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