March 2012
February 2012
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Fruit fly with optical spider illusion
bogleech:
This Rhagoletis fruit fly is a living optical illusion!
Here’s how its markings might look to a spider:
And here’s what that spider would probably think it sees:
A bigger spider might still attack, but smaller ones are unlikely to risk it.
Full article by Alex Wild here.
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