World Wildlife Day 2020: 10 insects with incredible camouflaging skills

World Wildlife Day, an occasion to cherish and celebrate planet’s wildlife and biodiversity is celebrated on March 3 annually. An integral part of biodiversity are insects who perform many important functions like aerating soil, pollinate blossoms amongst ors. However, re are many which have, for years amused humankind with ir extraordinary camouflaging skills. Watch a few here:

1. Orchid Mantis

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2. Assassin bugs

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3. Thorn Bugs

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4. Sand grasshoppers

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5. Red-banded leafhopper

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6. Mantis

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7. Goldenrod Crab Spider

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8. De leaf Butterfly 

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9. Walking stick mantis

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10. Plant hopper

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Significance of World Wildlife Day

World Wildlife Day is marked every year on March 3 since it was declared in 2013 to celebrate and raise awareness of world's animals under threat. me for World Wildlife Day 2020 is "sustaining all life on Earth." Wildlife Day is celebrated with concerns about sustaining wildlife which includes animals and plants. day highlights issues such as urbanization, poaching, pollution, destruction of wildlife habitat, and ways that humans can contribute to conservation efforts. 

World Wildlife Day is an opportunity to celebrate beautiful and varied forms of fauna and flora and to raise awareness of various challenges faced by se species. This day emphasises  urgent need to step up fight against wildlife crime which has wide-ranging ecomic, environmental and social impacts. On December 20, 2013, UNGA at its 68th session, decided to celebrate March 3 as World Wildlife Day. It is day of option of Convention on International Tre in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Since n, it has become one of most important global annual event dedicated to wildlife.