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Faithful Beauty - Response to predators - Composia fidelissima - female
Copyright © 2007 Alan Chin Lee

Faithful Beauty - Response to predators - Composia fidelissima - Female
Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA
September 15, 2007
Adult Faithful Beauties produce a distasteful yellow liquid which foams out from its thorax.

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Faithful Beauty - Response to predators - Composia fidelissima - female Faithful Beauty - Response to predators - Composia fidelissima - female Faithful Beauty - Response to predators - Composia fidelissima - female Faithful Beauty - Response to predators - Composia fidelissima - female
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Contributed by Alan Chin Lee on 17 September, 2007 - 4:00pm

Excellent capture of this behavioral repsonse!
Nice work, Alan. What danger do you think prompted it to initiate this defense mechanism?
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