Talk:Müllerian mimicry

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A fact from Müllerian mimicry appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 November 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Batesian and Müllerian mimicry provided early evidence for the theory of evolution put forward by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/November.

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Jargon in intro: "unprofitable and distasteful"?

It is not explained what "unprofitable" and "distasteful" mean here. I can see this is some sort of a jargon in biology but it is not listed in dictionaries. Could someone knowledgable maybe add an explanation or an explanatory footnote? --213.220.127.150 (talk) 01:54, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not really "jargon": it all just means not worth eating, for whatever reason - vile bitter taste, poison, foul stink, a nasty bite, a sting, anything that makes the effort of trying to eat it not worth the result. With insect prey, taste is one of the most common reasons but far from the only one. If you can think of one word that means all that, go for it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:15, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the explanation and thank you for fixing it ;) I was trying to mimic simple explanation given in Merriam-Webster and Britannica. I later noticed that "unprofitable" was already explained in a footnote in another section. 213.220.123.14 (talk) 14:21, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I noticed. Thanks for your interest. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:25, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]