This caterpillar resembles a snake head, which wards off predators like birds or larger amphibians.
    Markings on the nonvenomous kingsnake mimic those on the venomous coral snake. Coral snakes have red and yellow stripes, while the kingsnake has black and red stripes. The similarity helps the kingsnake to survive. Use the rhyme “red and yellow can kill a fellow; red and black, friend of Jack” to help remember which snake is which!
    Is it an eye? Is it a moth? Joke’s on you! It’s actually a butterfly with a wing pattern that resembles owl eyes. This keeps the butterfly safe from becoming prey for birds.
    When threatened, the hognose snake expands skin around its head, which makes it look like the highly venomous cobra snake! Hognose snakes are actually nonvenomous.
    The clearwing moth’s coloring mimics the markings on wasps, which fools predators into avoiding the moths as if they are the aggressive wasps.