I was having Happy Hour with Lib when she was in town last, and I noticed a curious bug on the wall. First I was bewildered, and after a moment I was almost offended that I had never seen such a bug before. For all intents and purposes, I'll name the bug Skip. Skip is a boy bug. He was probably related to the praying mantis, because of how long his legs were. He sat still for us to examine. Skip looked like a French Fry!! It dawned on me that living things have been adapting to their environments since the beginning of time to keep them safe from their predators. Other examples of camo bugs would be the leaf bug, and the walking stick.
What is to keep a perfectly buggy looking bug from turning into a bug that looks like a french fry that you find under the seat of your mini van?
That thought led me further down the rabbit hole... What if our urban pests all started to look like their surroundings. Perhaps a bug that looks like a cigarette butt will be the first evolutionary urban freak bug to cause an inner city plague! There are cigarette butts everywhere, no one likes to pick them up, and a bug that looks like a cigarette butt might be the safest bug in the world. If I were a bug, I would be a cigarette bug and I would dominate.
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