Hello beautiful TopFiveFamily community! It is a pleasure to greet you again and to participate in the Observe Think Write Contest. This time the image reveals a leaf insect, which is an expert in camouflage, that within foliage is lost from sight, since its green and elongated, flat shape allows it to blend in beautifully with its surroundings. It can easily pass as just another leaf in the garden, since it can mimic and thus mislead its natural predators, so that they do not attack it.
Leaf insects are green or brown, are herbivorous, only eat leaves and are also quite inactive, which is why their camouflage is exceptional, as this makes them look very much like leaves. It also helps to mimic the environment where it lives, because with this inactivity, they run the risk of being eaten by other insects, since to them (their predators) it would seem like a normal leaf, and this is enhanced by the fact that they hardly move.
It is said that there are several species of leaf insects, but there is doubt that there are many more, since they are so undetectable in the environment due to their extraordinary camouflage condition, many scientists claim that there may be many more than those currently known. Insects have several stages in their life, beginning as eggs, then as larvae, until they become adult insects. On its way to adulthood, the leaf insect can regenerate its limbs at the moment when it molts its skin. This moment is very risky for it, because its life is in great danger since it takes time to lose its skin and replace it.
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