Cinnabar Moth caterpillars are big and fat at this time of year and are easily spotted as they are almost exclusively found on Ragwort - an Buachalán Buí - and have colourfully hooped bodies ...

The cinnabar moth caterpillar's coloration pattern warns predators close up, but camouflages the critter from a distance. Skip to main content. Scientific American. March 5, 2018.

The researchers then captured more than 200 caterpillars, all of just three types: larvae of the cinnabar moth, the scarce vapourer moth and the European peacock butterfly.

Lead author Callum McLellan, a graduate student at the School of Biological Sciences, said “Cinnabar caterpillars have this really recognisable, stripey yellow and black appearance.

To do this, the scientists exposed artificial cinnabar caterpillars, characterised by bright yellow and black stripes, and non-signalling fake caterpillar targets to wild avian predation by ...