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You Are What You Eat
by Jack Laws — published October 01, 2011
The Darwin's emerald moth is a neat trick of evolution: The larvae change color depending on what they eat. And they do it visually -- but them in the dark and they fail to match their host plants.
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The Naturalist Notebook, by Jack Laws, appears in every print issue of Bay Nature magazine.
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