Leaf insect camouflaged by a green leaf

　　Eyes and antennae barely reveal the head of the leaf insect Phyllium giganteum. Early botanists believed that leaf insects actually incorporated the foliage they mimicked. As Royal Society Fellow Richard Bradley wrote in 1759, "The insect is nourished by the juices of the tree … and at the fall of the leaf, drops from the tree with the leaves growing to its body like wings, then walks about."

　　See more photographs from the August 2009 feature story "The Art of Deception."

　　摄影者：Christian Ziegler

　　被绿叶伪装的叶虫

　　眼睛和触角勉强显露出这只叶虫的头部。早期植物学家认为叶虫实际上与他们所模仿的树叶合二为一。就像皇家学会成员Richard Bradley在1759年写到的那样,"叶虫被树汁滋养...等到叶落之时，它就与翅膀般长在它身上的树叶一同飘落，然后四处游荡."