Lucas Bustamante / Lichen Katydid (Markia hystrix) camouflage in lichens. Sumaco National Park, Napo, Ecuador

Lucas Bustamante / Sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) Yanacocha, Pichincha, Ecuador

Konrad Wothe / Sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) in flight, North-Ecuador, Ecuador.

Konrad Wothe / Sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) hovering in flight, North-Ecuador.

Emanuele Biggi / Predatory bush cricket (Saga pedo) waiting for prey on Eryngium, Italy. June. Vulnerable species.

Andres M. Dominguez / Great green bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) and Common poppy (Papaver rhoeas) Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, southern Spain, April.

MYN / Paul van Hoof / Great green bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) female, The Netherlands, July. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Alex Hyde / Cave Cricket female (Troglophilus cavicola) on the side of stalactite in limestone cave. Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. January.

Pete Oxford / Leaf Katydid (Cycloptera speculata) camouflaged on leaf, Yasuni National Park, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador, South America.

Glenn Bartley / Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera), Ecuador

Juergen Freund / Spectral Tarsier (Tarsius tarsier) jumping on a grasshopper, Tangkoko National Park, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Pete Oxford / Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera), the only species of bird to have a bill longer than the rest of its body, approaching a flower. Yanacocha Reserve, Ecuador.