Not exact matches
This implies that
males, but not females, pay a high cost when they use color to communicate with other
damselflies, both in terms of predation risk and visibility to prey.
We hypothesize that females use this to reduce
male harassment, which is very intense in
damselflies.
The researchers found that
males are very conspicuous to bird predators, to other
damselflies, and to prey, while females remain predominantly cryptic (i.e. hard to see against the background).