Your opinion? Leaf Mimicking Insect

[ChanPaul]

The family Phylliidae contains the extant true leaf insects or walking leaves, which include some of the most remarkably camouflaged leaf mimics in the entire animal kingdom - they occur from South Asia thru Southeast Asia to Australia

Leaf insects are camouflaged taking on the appearance of leaves and they do this so accurately that predators often are not able to distinguish them from real leaves

In some species the edge of the leaf insect's body even has the appearance of bite marks and to further confuse predators, when the leaf insect walks, it rocks back and forth, to mimic a real leaf being blown by the wind

 

[lovitazoe]

The family Phylliidae contains the extant true leaf insects or walking leaves, which include some of the most remarkably camouflaged leaf mimics in the entire animal kingdom - they occur from South Asia thru Southeast Asia to Australia

Leaf insects are camouflaged taking on the appearance of leaves and they do this so accurately that predators often are not able to distinguish them from real leaves

In some species the edge of the leaf insect's body even has the appearance of bite marks and to further confuse predators, when the leaf insect walks, it rocks back and forth, to mimic a real leaf being blown by the wind

Great shot. Really looks like a leaf.

 

[ChanPaul]

Great shot. Really looks like a leaf.

yes Lovitazoe n if it has not moved i wld have walked past it

 

[Helix_2648]

Great shot! And thanks again for your effort to explain the insect to all of us.