visual communication in insects
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Explanation:
Many insects communicate with visual signals. ... Some insects use bright colors, eyespots, or other distinctive patterns to scare away predators, to advertise their ability to sting, or to mimic the appearance of another unpalatable species.
Answer:
How do ants know what path to follow? Which mechanisms do some male and female moths use to meet each other when located far away? As humans along history, insects have developed different ways to communicate with each other.
Do you want to know how and for what purpose do insects communicate by all its senses? Keep reading!
Insects language
Communication is defined as an exchange of information between two (or more) individuals: the one/s that transmits the message (emitter) and the one/s that receives and processes that message. While in humans communication passes through a long learning process, in insects the same process tends to be an inborn mechanism: each newborn individual has an specific vocabulary shared only with organisms of its own species.
On the other hand, we tend to see communication as an obvious process (if the emitter says “Thank you!” we expect the receptor to say “You’re welcome” in return). In insects, likewise in other animals, communication can take place in a way that information can’t be appreciated for us (humans).
Thus, it’s be better to say that communication is an act or condition of any part of an organism that alters the behavior of another organism. What does it means? That the emitter insect sends a missage to the rest of organisms by doing some action (e.g. an acoustic signal) or maybe by developing some physical trait which informs the rest of individual of some stuff (e.g. the color pattern of wings of some butterflies), in order to induce some answer or changes on the receptors that would benefit one or both of them.
Why do insects communicate?
Insects communicate both with organisms of the same species (intraspecific communication) and directly or indirectly with organisms of other species (interspecific communication) for many reasons:
Reproduction: to look for a mate, courtship…
To identify members of the same species or even to warn other organisms of its own presence.
To localize sources of recourses : food, nidification places,…
As an alert signal towards potential hazards.
To defend territory.
As a way to camouflage or to mimic other organisms