Why Small Is Beautiful: Wing Colour Is Free from Thermoregulatory Constraint in the Small Lycaenid Butterfly, Polyommatus icarus
Fig 2
Maximum temperatures (basking position*state: F1,64 = 85.11, P < 0.0001) (A) and heating rates (basking position*state: F1,64 = 25.71, P < 0.0001) (B) for dead (▲) and live (▀) butterflies with wings closed (1) and open (3) (means +/- S.E.).