Ingo Arndt / Palm Leaf showing midrib and veination, Yavari River, Amazon Basin, Peru

Ingo Arndt / Palm Leaf showing midrib and veination, Yavari River, Amazon Basin, Peru

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Honduran White Bat (Ectophylla alba) roosting under Heliconia leaf, bats chewed sides of midrib causing leaf to collapse and provide shelter, rainforest, Costa Rica

Premaphotos / Bush-cricket / katydid (Oxyprora sp) in its normal daytime pose facing towards the stem along the midrib of a leaf, in rainforest, Peru

Premaphotos / Bush-cricket / katydid (Diyllus sp) in perfectly camouflaged daytime pose stretched out along a leaf midrib, in rainforest, Peru

Nigel Cattlin / Honeydew and soft brown scale insects (Coccus hesperidum) on a banana leaf midrib vein, a house plant.

Nigel Cattlin / Honeydew and soft brown scale insects (Coccus hesperidum) on a banana leaf midrib vein grown as a house plant,