Via Matthew Cobb, a tweet from Alex Wild, entomologist and insect photographer nonpareil (see his website Myrmecos):
“One of my favorite photos from last week is a perfectly camouflaged Australian bug.”
A bug
December 28, 2011 • 3:09 pm
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Now that’s one leafhopper you can really take for granite.
+1!
*ba* *dum* *pish*
That is how it looks to humans. How does it look to other bugs and/or animals without color vision?
Pretty much the same. There’s really not a wide range of color here. Substitute the predominantly-white shades with white and the darker shades with black. The pattern is still pretty much identical to what we see in this image. Also, it has been proved that most bugs and especially most animals are, in fact, not color-blind. They simply see different ranges of the spectrum than we do, some smaller, some larger, some drastically offset (ultra-violet, infrared, etc; mostly in the case of insects).
So…any guesses as to how many more generations it’ll take for that pinkish fringe to disappear as well?
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Perhaps the pinkish fringe makes it sexy…
Reblogged this on urbanperegrines.
Just another one of those Australian bugs, eh? Oh sure, I’m sure we all look alike to you, don’t we !!!
Well, you said it!
what is even more impressive is that the bug KNOWS what to hide on to be camouflaged. further proof of evolution. If that bug was hiding on a piece of obsidian, I’m guessing that his camo wouldn’t be as effective!
It’s hardly perfectly camouflaged – I can see it quite readily, but it is camouflaged as well as nature can make it – that’s one of the reasons we can be sure it evolved and was not designed….
All this means is that Jesus loves the bugs!
Oh yes, and hates the frogs or predators that eats the bugs…
But that’s only because of the fall. Predators were all vegetarians before Eve betrayed mankind and every animal that is not at the top of a food chain. The ones with the really big teeth needed them to eat coconuts.
Just what the plants did to deserve being eaten by herbivores and carnivores alike, I couldn’t guess. I could make something up though, like they are what some fallen angels got turned into after they rebelled against the creator. The creator that made them what they were, knowing that they would rebel.
Btw, is there a consensus amongst the sects as to when the rebellion happened? Before or after God said it was good and rested?