Ahh, they are so nice, these Striped bugs, Graphosoma italicum! I feel happy every summer when I find them!
Another species using aposematic colouration.

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Woodland burnet, Zygaena osterodensis , a good example of aposematic colour signalling - I taste bad.

Bad taste pays off, here exemplified by two Woodland Burnets, Zygaena osterodensis. Their black and red colours is a aposematic signal - "I'm poisonus" or "I taste very bad".
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