Show SEEK TO TERRIFY ENEMIES insects physically unable to put up fight resort to all 8 sorts orts of Sc schemes herties it is generally believed that many animals especially insects tissi assume lille what Is called a terrifying attitude by means of which they escape their natural cu enemies emles in tho ho zoological A mr I 1 r arnold jachn describes the terrifying attitude of the hawk eyed moth during the day this insect sits with folded wings on the willow or other tree atiee the eye spot and tho the rose red part of the wings are hidden and the moth looks like a group ot of dried diled wll wil low leaves this la Is its protective attitude by which it wishes to escape observation but it if disturbed it im mediately assumes the terrifying at tile the eyo eye spot and red are arc als played thorax arched abdomen curved u up I 1 this Is accompanied by a protruding and loti retracting acting ot of the front of tho the body tho the movement lasts some rome few see sec ands or halt a minute this la Is thought to frighten the moths enemies the eye ae spot may suggest the eye of some larger animal while tho the energetic motion may give the impression that the enemy itself is about to be seized and devoured but does the moths terrifying at really frighten its enemies and allow it to escape tried onto experiments with a view to settling this point lie he gave specimens of the moth to nightingale redbreast red rod breast blackcap black cap and other birds four out of five were obviously frightened when the moth assumed the terrifying at and left it alone after one tra cisal |