Tag: Maculinea arion

Carnivorous Caterpillars Fool Ants by Sounding like Queens

Last week Kiran Gadhave wrote about “The Curious Case of the Large Blue Butterfly,” and he described how the butterfly larvae fool ants into taking them into their colonies, where […]

Entomology Today April 11, 2014 Leave a Comment

The Curious Case of the Large Blue Butterfly — a Conservation Success Story

By Kiran Gadhave Not long ago, the large blue butterfly (Maculinea arion) had fallen to extinction in the UK, largely due to its obligate association with a particular species of […]