Question

If you find a brightly colored insect resting on a dead leaf, the insect is likely to

Answer 1

Be poisonous or distasteful

Hints:

If you find a brightly colored insect resting on a dead leaf, the insect is likely to be poisonous or distasteful.

Any insects that are brightly colored is a warning to predators that they're toxic. Avoid any brightly-colored specimens, such as the eastern lubber (common in Texas and some other southern states), which can make you sick as they are a kind of Poisonous Grasshoppers. Some caterpillars are toxic, like the giant silkworm moth and the puss caterpillar. Bright ones and hairy ones tend to be toxic, but that isn’t a set-in-stone rule.