how does biomimicry effect other species?

Answer 1

Well this bio mimicry or baetisian mimicry, has several aspects to it.
I have actually though that it may be a form of parasitism. Hear me out....
In the example most commonly used, a viceroy butterfly mimics a Monarch. The Viceroy inherits protection by dawning the warning colors of a monarch. If lets say a bluejay eats a viceroy, lets say its a young bird, and it is its first expereince. It will eat the viceroy and enjoy it. Then it sees a Monarch and cant tell the difference, it eats the monarch, killing it, but then begins to vomit. The viceroy in a way stole the identity and because of this lead to the death of the monarch.
Another scenario: A monarch is eaten first, and vomited immediatly...that bird will never attack a butterfly that resembles it, thereby avoiding the viceroy....so the viceroy inherits protection through the death of the monarch.

basically all animals that "steal" warning colors of more potentially dangerous or less palatable animals are in a way acting as parasites.

Answer 2

Are we talking the "other species" who practice biomimicry? Their predators? The things they mimic?

For example, the king snake has a pattern of red, black, and yellow bands similar to the coral snake. The coral snake is poisonous. The king snake is not.

Predators avoid the king snake if they have met with a coral snake, and because in general bright colors like that tend to represent poison.

The Viceroy butterfly looks a lot like the Monarch butterfly. Monarchs are deadly poison and taste terrible. Any animal that has bitten a Monarch unwittingly will not bit a Viceroy. I suppose that if the first butterfly a bird met was a Viceroy, a Monarch might get sampled later, because the first butterfly hadn't tasted bad.