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Margaret Neville was amazed by a beautiful creature that she saw during a stroll on her farm in South Africa. It is most remarkable for appearing to be covered in lots of tiny flowers, coloured green and white. Also, it complements these with a number of white or lilac protrusions to make them blend in with surrounding plants – a truly brilliant camouflage. They are small, being approximately 1.5 to 2 inches long and when threatened, will stand upright and spread their wings which reveal two “eyes” to scare off predators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Margaret Neville was amazed by a beautiful creature that she saw during a stroll on her farm in South Africa. It is most remarkable for appearing to be covered in lots of tiny flowers, coloured green and white. Also, it complements these with a number of white or lilac protrusions to make them blend in with surrounding plants – a truly brilliant camouflage. They are small, being approximately 1.5 to 2 inches long and when threatened, will stand upright and spread their wings which reveal two “eyes” to scare off predators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[482,27,30,25,481],"class_list":["post-18759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-africa","tag-biodiversity","tag-environment","tag-green-space","tag-wonder-of-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18760,"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18759\/revisions\/18760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}