How does a insect camouflage itself?

Answer 1

Butterflies use camouflage as an effective survival strategy. Butterflies that might find tasty are well camouflaged or just drab. Some develop spots to frighten or distract predators,like birds, Some have, "eye spots" on their wings that look like eyes of a larger animal. Some species have bright spots near the tail that draw the predator's attention away from the head. Many butterflies have chunks missing from their hind wings. Which made the predator avoid attacking the botterflies head, which would be fatal. They can still fly.Brightly colored butterflies are either poisonous--or mimics of a poisonous butterfly. Butterflies that birds might find tasty are well camouflged or just drab to blend in when they are resting on a tree trunk or rocky ground.

Answer 2

They are shaped and colored like a stick or a twig, so by resting quietly among the branches of a tree or shrub they merge into the background. Often they sway gently from side to side, like a moving twig.

Answer 3

Caterpillars can camouflage in different ways.

Some caterpillars resemble a withered leaf, some resemble bird faeces, some can change colors, some can hide their eyes and legs making them look like some twig, some resemble snakes.

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Answer 4

By blending in with its backround, e.g. it will hind in the bushes.....................

Answer 5

It seems that stick insects do not camouflage themselves; they are born that way, i.e. looking like sticks!

Answer 6

self defense.

Answer 7

Beetle Camouflague