07 December 2011

Flamboyant

The Stinging Rose caterpillar - its colours announce how dangerous it is (this is called aposematic coloration - who knew!) If you touch it, the tips of the spines break off and venom enters the skin.

See more toxic caterpillars here (but don't click on links on that site - they are embedded ads, unfortunately).

2 comments:

Sandy said...

and are you doing journey lines for them? :)
Sandy

Elly Wijnen said...

What a beautiful design!