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Horned cicada - the camouflage master of the insect world, this may be a false horn!

There are many creatures in the world that we know but do not understand, such as cicadas. You may have only seen the tireless chirping of the summer "know", and there are more than 3,000 known cicadas in the world, and one of the most special types of cicadas is called "horned cicadas", as the name suggests, that is, horned cicadas.

Horned cicada - the camouflage master of the insect world, this may be a false horn!
Horned cicada - the camouflage master of the insect world, this may be a false horn!
Horned cicada - the camouflage master of the insect world, this may be a false horn!

Horned cicadas are also known as "stinging worms", which is also related to their horns, these small bugs are extremely small, only 2 to 20 mm long, much smaller than the ordinary "zhi", so it is not easy to find.

Horned cicada - the camouflage master of the insect world, this may be a false horn!
Horned cicada - the camouflage master of the insect world, this may be a false horn!

Generally long-horned animals, their horns are grown on the head, and the horned cicada is not the same, its horns are not grown from the skull, but have the front chest back plate of the chest formed (growing on the back carapace), the horned cicada has a wide variety of types, the form is also strange, there are horns like cattle, there are horns like top hats, different forms.

Horned cicada - the camouflage master of the insect world, this may be a false horn!

Kind of like Leo Ultraman

Horned cicada - the camouflage master of the insect world, this may be a false horn!

These strange horns are not used for offense or defense, but to imitate the environment, camouflage themselves to avoid enemies, and they hide on branches like branches. Otherwise, how can it be called the camouflage master of the insect world! In order to hide, I don't care what I look like.

Horned cicada - the camouflage master of the insect world, this may be a false horn!
Horned cicada - the camouflage master of the insect world, this may be a false horn!
Horned cicada - the camouflage master of the insect world, this may be a false horn!

Horned cicadas make a living sucking up the sap of trees, and when these strangely shaped horned cicadas stop perching on the branches, you can't tell the truth. Even when several to a dozen horned cicadas stop on the same branch at the same time, they will be very tacitly equidistant, making people look like real small branches.

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