An elegant model and a natural mimic (with appalling manners!)
Butterflies in the genus Acraea – such as the Acraea Elegant, Acraea egina, feed selectively on plants with cyanoglycosides (poisons!) belonging to plant families such as the Passifloraceae (the Passion Flower family). So they are brightly coloured to advertise that they are poisonous, or at least distasteful to birds and other predators; and as such they serve…