by the body. This is usually accomplished through dorsoventral flattening and with lateral flaps and various body protrusions (Fig. 3 – aradid bug with lateral projections). Some caterpillars and aquatic insects use countershading to conceal their shadows; that is, there's a compensatory deepening or lightening of the body color to neutralize changes in light intensity. The pattern is usually one of ventral lightening and dorsal darkening. Thus in aquatic insect, for example, a fish may mistake the underside of a countershaded insect for the surface of the water. A few lucky species of insects have the ability to change their colour to match that of the background on which they rest. For example many locusts demonstrate the ability of varying the quantities of orange, yellow, and black pigments they form in order to change their colour from dirty white to yellow, brown, or black.
             As an alternative to the camouflage approach, another form of crypsis used by some insects is termed masquerade. These insects evade predatio
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