Dry Season Eyespots (IMAGE)

Oregon State University

Dry Season Eyespots

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During the dry season, this Bycyclus anyana butterfly has small, dull eyespots that make it harder to see and help it avoid the most important predator at that time -- birds.

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(Photo by Antonia Monteiro, courtesy of Oregon State University)

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