Will Allen

@wlallen.bsky.social

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Associate Professor in Evolutionary and Sensory Ecology - Swansea University, Wales www.easelab.uk co-Director @crocus-dla.bsky.social Senior Editor @ecol-evol.bsky.social

Attenborough’s black-eyed satyr - Euptychia attenboroughi

Results of the lepidopteran survey, showing the proportion or warning and cryptic coloured lepidoptera globally.

Saxicola rubicola (c) Stansislav Harvancik

Figure showing some of the locations, the artificial prey targets, and global variation in two key variables - predation intensity and illumination levels.

Map showing the faces and locations of the collaborators in the globally distributed experiment.

A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon). Photo (c) Mike Rowe

Schematic figure indicating scientific support for the assumptions underlying the relationship between diversification rate and current naturalisation potential.

Graphical abstract illustrating the main results of two experiments on pest acuity and trap capture.

A sunken path

Velvet ants with and without conspicuous spots.

Velvet ant showing ultrablack colour

Flyer for PhD on cabbage stem flea beetle.

Dusky langurs - an example of primate natal colouration

Mug with a fine crack.

A screenshot of the project description. Available to read here: https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/f/373/files/2024/11/swbio-25-projectAP-2.pdf

Graphical abstract showing how counterillumination can reduce interactions with great white sharks.

Figure showing differences in sense organs on robinfish 'legs'.