NW T5, Challenge Scientific: Hide and Seek
In order to survive in the wilderness, many animals have developed strategies to mislead predators or preys.

Mimicry and camouflage are often used.

Your challenge this month is to craft a project either inspired by the mimicry or camouflage techniques used by an animal, or by the animal itself using mimicry/camouflage.
Tell us in your submission which animal you picked and how their mimicry or camouflage technique inspired your project.

In all life stages the Viceroy butterfly mimics something. The eggs resemble insect galls that affect the host plants. The caterpillars resemble bird droppings. They roll bits of leaf material to hang near them as a distraction. Older caterpillar looks formidable with its tubercles. Even the overwintering caterpillar rolls up in a leaf tip to hide from predators. Because the adult Viceroy butterflies resemble Monarch butterflies which taste bad and are left alone by predators, they are often by-passed for other prey. The hind wing bands in the Viceroy butterfly give it away as not being the Monarch butterfly.

I knitted burnt orange socks like the burnt orange color of the Viceroy and Monarch butterflies.

Team tie in: Star Wars
The orange color of the socks are like the orange Rebel flight suits worn by the Rebel pilots while flying starfighters in the Star Wars movie. The X-wing suit’s telltale orange color was chosen to be reminiscent of the “international orange” U.S. Navy flight suits used from 1957 to 1969.

Cast on with US2 and worked 14 rnds of cuff. Then changed to US1.