At every stage in their lives, from egg to adult, leaf and stick insects prove to be prey that can trick their predators. ... The eggs in this composite grid of images average about 0.12 inch long.

The European mantis (Mantis religiosa) or praying mantis is a species of praying mantis native to Europe, Asia, and Africa.

This bat gleans insects from leaves. A team of researchers discovered that by approaching a leaf at an oblique angle, it can use its echolocation system to detect stationary insects in the dark ...

Bats Actively Use Leaves as Specular Reflectors to Detect Acoustically Camouflaged Prey. Current Biology , 2019; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.076 Cite This Page : ...

The picture shows the insect that looks exactly like a leaf. In fact, at first – or even second or third glance – it looks like an artwork created using a leaf. Take a look at the post: ...

To avoid becoming prey, insects use mimicry to blend into their surroundings. By Nora Gallagher. March 24, 2014 ... Not only does this walking leaf insect (Phyllium giganteum) ...

Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers. But the “flowers” are modified leaves that form a cup containing digestive enzymes and entrap insects.

Spiders swinging lassos, ants setting deadly traps and turtles with deceiving tongues — these animals have the most cunning methods of hunting their prey.

Carnivorous plants, such as the Venus fly trap and the pitcher plant, consume insects. Pitcher plants catch their prey in a pool of water containing digestive enzymes, whereas the Venus fly trap ...

If insect secretions, such as uric acid, stimulate the trap, it will clamp down further on the prey and form an airtight seal. (If tripped by a curious spectator or a falling dead twig, the trap ...

When a bat approaches from these angles, it cannot find its prey as strong echoes from the leaves mask the echoes from the insect. But Geipel and colleagues found that if the sound originates from ...

Bats can find motionless insects on leaves in the dark. This was thought to be impossible, because the acoustic camouflage provided by the leaves should confuse their echolocation system. Inga ...