Page 76 - Allah's Artistry in Colour

The colours of the butterflies seen in the photographs are in fact very striking. However,
both live in safety due to the harmonious they blend in with the substratum on which
they pose.
way, the required message is delivered to the predator.

Camouflage of Butterflies
Butterflies' camouflaging skills are as impressive as their false eyes. It is as
if camouflaging butterflies see the colour of the bush, make an evaluation of
the environment, analyse it, and imitate the colour of the bush with the colours
they produce in their bodies' highly effective systems. Another species, aware
of the tastes of its predator, gives warning signals to it by imitating colours that
repel it by suggesting that the butterfly would taste bad or even be poisonous.
It is by no means possible for a butterfly alone to perform these acts. We can
make it clearer with an example:
Suppose that you are trying to produce a colour in a laboratory. If you
have little knowledge of this subject, you will not be able to achieve the def-
inite result that you wish, no matter how advanced your laboratory equip-
ment or facilities. Then consider trying to achieve the quality of colours such
as those of the butterflies, which, by developing the same colours and pat-

terns as the environment, become almost invisible. You would not be able to
develop even a single meaningful colour. The situation being so, it would be
certainly an unscientific and irrational approach to claim that this glorious
system in butterflies has come into existence by chance free of conscious de-
sign.
If there is a design somewhere, there is also a designer. The flawless de-