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MoistMartini t1_itbtrji wrote

An additional cool detail that can help understand that this is not a coordinated mechanism but a matter of selection, is that sometimes the non-poisonous/venomous species will evolve to look exactly like a poisonous/venomous one. Plenty of insects that take the color scheme of wasps, for example. This is just because the individuals in a population that most closely resemble a wasp (due to mutations that happen over several generations) are less likely to be eaten by predators that fear wasps and so are more likely to reproduce

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