🔬 Science · Insects & Minibeasts
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 you spot it?' challenge.
Typical age: 7–9 years
“If you showed your child pictures of stick insects hiding on branches or hoverflies pretending to be wasps, could they explain why those insects look the way they do?”
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