ArticleScientific reports2018
Iridescence impairs object recognition in bumblebees.
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- Beetle iridescence induces an avoidance response in naïve avian predators.Animal behaviour · 2022Article
- Flower Color Evolution and the Evidence of Pollinator-Mediated Selection.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Review
- Structural colours in diverse Mesozoic insects.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Iridescence as Camouflage.Current biology : CB · 2020Article
- Antipredator strategies of pupae: how to avoid predation in an immobile life stage?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Cross-modal transfer in visual and nonvisual cues in bumblebees.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019Article
- Functional significance of the optical properties of flowers for visual signalling.Annals of botany · 2019Review
- Dynamic colour change and the confusion effect against predation.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Characterization of chloroplast iridescence inJournal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2018Article
- Interactions between color and gloss in iridescent camouflage.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Iridescence is a taxonomically widespread and striking form of animal coloration, yet despite advances in understanding its mechanism, its function and adaptive value are poorly understood. We test a counterintuitive hypothesis about the function of iridescence: that it can act as camouflage through interference with object recognition. Using an established insect visual model (Bombus terrestris), we demonstrate that both diffraction grating and multilayer iridescence impair shape recognition (although not the more subtle form of diffraction grating seen in some flowers), supporting the idea that both strategies can be effective means of camouflage. We conclude that iridescence produces visual signals that can confuse potential predators, and this might explain the high frequency of iridescence in many animal taxa.
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