Its consciousness that it needs only to be seen to be avoided gives it that slowness of motion and fearlessness of aspect which are, as we shall see, characteristic of most creatures so protected.
_Warning Colours among Insects._ It is among insects that warning colours are best developed, and most abundant.

We all know how well marked and conspicuous are the colours and forms of the stinging wasps and bees, no one of which in any part of the world is known to be protectively coloured like the majority of defenceless insects.

Most of the great tribe of Malacoderms among beetles are distasteful to insect-eating animals.

Our red and black Telephoridae, commonly called "soldiers and sailors," were found, by Mr.
Jenner Weir, to be refused by small birds.

These and the allied Lampyridae (the fireflies and glow-worms) in Nicaragua, were rejected by Mr.Belt's tame monkey and by his fowls, though most other insects were greedily eaten by them.