Mimicry

Recently I've been getting quite interested in mimicry and the different types. I understand that this is a bit of a niche question, so I'm not expecting many responses! In Mertensian/Emsleysn mimicry, both a harmful (usually deadly) and harmless ...

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... mirror image of a “moving” object. Again, I don’t mean that a particular object represents a particular goal, but if I observe a perfect level of mimicry today, I assume that after a certain level of accumulated qualities of a specific benchmark bug, a mimicking bug’s deviation to the right / ...

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... here already), but was rather looking for clarification, because of my limited knowledge on the subject. I came to conclusion that creation of mimicry of a non-static object through the means of natural selection is next to impossible (I welcome anyone to challenge that). Trees seem to be static ...

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... alter its qualities (or at least shouldn’t do it too fast) or one will not be able to reach a state of a perfect camouflage. Since camouflage and mimicry exist, what's the alternative?

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... which nothing ever actually reaches. Survival of the fittest (greenest). Another factor, which will not apply to all examples of camouflage or mimicry, is the relative abilities of populations to change. With the bug example, we have three relevant populations - the bugs, the trees, and the ...

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