Thursday, April 19, 2012

Fickle Feeders

[This was written by Fran Siebrits and published online by Wild Magazine http://www.wildcard.co.za/, 2012]

The cluster disa, a Western Cape endemic, changes its flower colour according to the area in which it grows. This chameleon-like adaptation is all in an effort to fool the iconic mountain pride butterfly into visiting it.