What are some insect color/camouflage adaptations?Why have they adapted them?

Question

Hello.
I'm an integigant student on Junor science competions.
My job is to find certian information on insects. I'm a very bussy person, so I was just looking for some help from x-perts.
The infortion applies to the basic isect orders(not including spiders)
If you know anything, and is possitive it's true, please let me know. I will probably give a BEST or Thumbs Up to the ones who gives me exactly what I'm looking for(without "fluff" or any other exess information.)

Thank you!

Answer 1

"Insects are a large part of the food consumed by other animals. Many insects disguise themselves as something they are not for protection and survival. Some use camouflage comprised of colors and patterns to blend in. Others display warning colors to scare off predators.

Mantids (praying mantis) vary greatly in shape, hue and pattern... Some tropical mantids have bodies flattened and shaped like leaves. Some resemble bird droppings, which attract filth-loving flies. Some simulate flowers (rose-leaf mantids of India) with the legs and thorax shaped like leaves. This illusion attracts nectar-eating insects to their death.

Insects depending on camouflage stay in one position for long periods of time. A bird following his dinner, the beautiful Indian dead-leaf butterfly, approaches a bush and dinner completely disappears. When the butterfly closes its wings and even to experts, it looks like a dead leaf when it is in its resting state.

Next in line with the best camouflage are moths. Their wing colors and markings allow them to blend in with their resting places. They also spread their wings flat sideways and cast practically no shadow. They appear to merge into the bark.

One hundred years ago, the dark phase of the peppered moth was sought by collectors in the British Isles because it was so rare. Over the years, soot began to pour into the atmosphere in conjunction with the rapid industrial growth. The resting places of these moths grew dark and the light phase moths became easy targets for birds. The dark moths began to survive, reproduce and multiple. Now the light colored form of the moth is hardly seen. This is an excellent example of how environmental changes and pressures favor one variant of a species.

The caterpillar we know as an "inch worm" is also a master of disguise when it imitates a twig. It grasps the stem it is perched on with its hind-most prolegs and stiffly stretches its body into the air at an angle that resembles a stem. It remains motionless for long periods of time.

In contrast to the use of camouflage for survival, there are the "good tasting" insects that resemble other "evil tasting" insects. Bold patterns advertise that it is a protected insect. " [1]

"Camouflage and mimicry are adaptations some animals use as protection from predators. An animal that uses camouflage looks like things in its environment. It might look like a leaf, a twig, or a rock. Animals that use mimicry use colors and markings to look like another animal." [2]

[3] below has lots of good info.
[4] has good info, pictures and links.
[5] is from Harvard. I couldn't open the page here in Japan, but you might have better luck.

Good luck! BTW, what's "an integigant student"?

Answer 2

No. they do no longer experience the experience like we human beings do. it truly is because we've a efficient anxious equipment operating through our vertebra (backbone) which sends messages to our mind. which means if if our leg is damage, we experience the soreness on the genuine mind. on the different hand, the insects are non-vertebra and they do no longer have efficient anxious equipment. subsequently if an ant's leg is beaten, in reality the leg will experience interior sight soreness. with the exception of, their soreness importance is short, because they produce large variety of off springs and their existence is short. they could also reproduce their lost organs. it truly is been said that in case you shrink a cockroach's head, it is going to die after a month using ravenous. Scientists have shrink a lobster's leg and feed him, which he ate. it truly is likewise genuine that except for human beings no different animal knows its existence.