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praying mantis

  • When striped animals move, their stripes make it hard for predators to see them clearly. (Katja Schulz, Wikimedia Commons)
    Survival Stripes
    Victoria Clare
    The stripes on some insects help them survive in the wild. When prey with high-contrast stripes move, their stripes blur, making it hard for a predator to see them. That's what a group of scientists found out in an experiment on praying mantises.