Because they do not have wings, certain species of walking stick insects typically spend their entire lives on one bush. Some of these insects are solid green, while others have white stripes running up their bodies, as pictured below. Image by Moritz Muschick (University of Sheffield), 2013. Reproduced under the terms of the Creative Commons License, Attribution 2.0 Generic Recently, scientists have noticed trends in the insects’ color patterns. Depending on the bush they inspect, the scientists may find mostly green bugs or mostly striped ones. How does this genetic variation in color increase the probability of survival for this species of insect