Dear Palia, I think I have not been clear......I have seen leaf insects, stick insects, but this specimen is something I have never seen The mimicry is so perfect! Also, what I want to say is that we really have not given insects the sort of attention they deserve apart from the pestilent flies and mosquitoes. Huge damage has been caused thanks to this general ignorance and total apathy to the poisoning of the environment with pesticides. Today, bird life has crashed in all areas where there is widespread spraying be it in the fruit growing Kullu Valley or the cotton growing campaigns of Gujarat.
Regards, Lavkumar Khachar. On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Yazdy Palia <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Mr. Lavkumar Kachar, > Though a lay person, I have seen similar insects (excepting that I did not > know it was called leaf insects). I have also seen insects looking just like > a twig, the colour of dry twig. At first sight you will never think it is an > insect. One reason could be that they are insects coming out at night. It > was by accident that I noticed some of these insects. I live close to a > forest and at my coffee farm in wayanad. We sometimes leave the light near > the drying yard on all night. It is when you go to switch it off early in > the morning, you notice these very strange insects surrounding the light. If > you are late you never see them because the birds would have feasted on > them. > Regards > Yazdy Palia. > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:20 AM, lavkumar khachar < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Very unusual! In my long innings looking at insects and birds and plants, >> I have never seen such a wonderful example of a leaf insect..... Really, our >> knowledge of insects is simply abysmal despite the fact that insects are so >> very important for the welfare of birds and, for that matter plants. >> >> Lavkumar Khachar. >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 7:49 PM, J.M. 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