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A Field Guide To Polyinsectia

by River M.
Utah, KUED

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Orange Insect

Lives: Orange trees
The Orange insect is very sweet. All of the other carnivorous insects love to eat it. It camouflages itself in with the Oranges it eats.

The orange insect lays between 80 to 200 eggs. In two months The eggs hatch. In six months it makes a chrysalis and in 8 months it hatches.

legs look like leaves to camouflage it better.
Head
Thorax
Abdomen

 

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