Can't get me!!

Insects are the most prolific animals on earth, but they also have many predators!!! Today we explored different defense mechanisms insects have against those who want to eat them.   

Some of these strategies included:

-playing dead

-camouflage (and looking like other things in nature like sticks, leaves or even bird poop!)

-being poisonous (warning colours and patterns to show you are not good to eat)

-having warning colours, pretending you are poisonous even though you are not

-losing a limb if a predator grabs it

-being really fast like a fly

-spraying predator with stink spray, acid or a sticky substance to trap it

-working as a team (like ants and bees)

-having a stinger or biting

-having a strong exoskeleton or pointy spines

-building a shelter or protection like the caddisfly case, beehives or anthills 

-mimicking the appearance of a dangerous animals (looking like a wasp even though you are a moth)