Have You Seen The Insects That Look Exactly Like Leaves On Trees

By ( 2 )

The family Phylliidae or walking leaves are insects that have camouflage that takes on the appearance of leaves.

In some species, the edge of the insect’s body has the appearance of bite marks to further confuse predators. When leaf insects walk they rocks back and forth like leaves moving in the wind.

Categories: Nature Beyond NormalTags:

2 comments ›

  1. rue202
    October 12, 2018 • 10:41 pm

    Fascinating! I had actually heard of it before from Horton Hears A Who movie.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply ↓
  2. jmshistorycorner
    October 15, 2018 • 6:32 am

    Heard of these before. Amazing camouflage.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply ↓

I want to hear what you have to say

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: