According to what animal was camouflage invented?

The greatest contribution to the invention of camouflage clothing is the butterfly.

It is generally difficult for people to catch butterflies. Butterflies can be well hidden in the grass because they have colorful patterns. Inspired by this, people invented camouflage uniforms to make it easier for soldiers to hide on the battlefield. Butterflies are colorful, such as those with bimonthly patterns, those with brown patterns, especially those with fluorescent wings, in which the hind wings are sometimes golden and sometimes green in the sun.

Scientists have brought great benefits to military defense by studying the color of butterflies. During World War II, the Germans surrounded Leningrad in an attempt to destroy its military targets and other defense facilities with bombers. Schwarzenegger, an entomologist in the Soviet Union, put forward the principle that the color of butterflies is not easy to be found in flowers, and covered military facilities with butterfly-like camouflage. Therefore, despite the German efforts, the military base in Leningrad remained intact, which laid a solid foundation for winning the final victory.

According to the same principle, people later produced camouflage uniforms widely used in modern wars, which greatly reduced the casualties in the battle.

Camouflage clothes are clothes disguised by irregular protective color patterns composed of green, yellow, tea and black. Camouflage requires that the reflected light wave is roughly the same as the surrounding scenery, which can not only confuse the enemy's visual reconnaissance, but also deal with infrared reconnaissance, making it difficult for the enemy's modern reconnaissance instruments to capture the target.

Camouflage is the basic type of training clothes. Camouflage is a new protective color, which consists of irregular patterns of green, yellow, brown and black. Camouflage requires that the reflected light wave is roughly the same as the surrounding scenery, which can not only confuse the enemy's naked eye reconnaissance, but also deal with infrared reconnaissance, making it difficult for the enemy's modern reconnaissance instruments to capture the target. Camouflage clothes first appeared as camouflage clothes, and Hitler's army first used camouflage clothes at the end of World War II, which was called "tricolor camouflage clothes". Later, some countries led by the United States were equipped with "four-color camouflage uniforms".