Adaptations Insect
Mouthparts, Mimicry, and Flying
Andi
Diehn
Illustrated by Lex Cornell
Adaptations Insect
Mouthparts, Mimicry, and Flying
Andi Diehn
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ISBN Softcover: 978-1-64741-131-2
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SPRINGING! FLYING! MUNCHING! HIDING! Insects are everywhere, but they can be easy to miss.
THEY’RE MASTERS OF DISGUISE, Shapes and colors blending into their environment.
THEY’RE FAST, Moving on quick legs and whizzing through the air.
THEY’RE SMALL, Folding tiny bodies into cracks and crevices.
THEY’RE MANY, Outnumbering humans and all other species.
WHAT KINDS OF INSECTS ARE CRAWLING AROUND YOU RIGHT NOW?
Have you ever seen a grasshopper jumping up from tall grass?
Those must be some pretty strong jumping legs!
Long, springlike legs are an adaptation that helps grasshoppers survive in their habitat.
Those legs let them leap away from danger or take off in flight.
Adaptation means fitting into an environment to survive.
For example, some insects have wings so they can fly around.
Others have strong jaws to chew their food.
Insects with traits that help them survive live long enough to pass down these characteristics to their offspring.
Because the offspring have the same characteristics as their parents, they are the ones to survive.
As time passes, the characteristics that don’t help with survival appear less and less often.
Mimicry is another adaptation we can see in the insect world.
The giant swallowtail caterpillar hangs out on the tops of leaves, but it is not green like many other caterpillars that use camouflage to hide from predators.
The giant swallowtail caterpillar is WHITE and BLACK, but lots of predators avoid it because it looks like . . . What do frogs order when they go to a restaurant?
FRENCH FLIES!