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Camouflage, warning colours, and mimicry

Camouflage, warning colours, and mimicry: how insects survive by hiding or sending visual signals. Stick insects look like twigs, leaf insects look like leaves. Wasps have warning stripes; hoverflies mimic wasps but are harmless. The 'can…

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Which two insects survive by looking just like a part of a plant in their surroundings?

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Sam wrote down the insects he thought used camouflage to hide in the garden. Which pair are both insects that hide by looking like parts of plants?

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Why does a harmless hoverfly look like a wasp?

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