Observations "hiding" in other observations; Share your examples!

I see some things hiding.

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I photographed the :cherry_blossom: Bidens frondosa this afternoon, but it wasn’t until this evening that I discovered :spider: its inhabitant !

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Small yellow larva hanging out with this fuzzy caterpillar

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I was looking for galls on goldenrod lask week, but didn’t find any. I took some photos of a katydid that I found on the goldenrod. I just noticed in the background of my photos what I think is a gall forming midge laying eggs on the goldenrod flowers.
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Over the weekend I observed this double-banded scoliid wasp:


What I didn’t notice until postprocessing was the caterpillar hidden among the leaves off to the left:

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Attempting to photograph the underside of galls on a rolled leaf…



I seemed to have disturbed this spider

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Wow! I’ve never even seen a pseudoscorpion!

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Looks like their may be a small caterpillar on a flower just to the right of the butterfly. Also what looks like insect eggs on stalks (lacewing eggs?) just to the right of the caterpillar. I like puzzles

Looks like a snail at the base of the mushroom. Could be an empty shell

Aphids, lacewing, monarch caterpillar :smiling_face:

Yes, but I would expect it would require a picture of the aperture to identify to species. I was focused on the caterpillar but I guess it might be in a similar situation since no one IDed it.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/235923409


I found a voyeur.
There is always something else… I posted this because I found the peeping critter funny.

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I had a cool little triple observation the other day with this little arthropod party.

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I just now noticed a moth hiding on the left side of this photograph I took 5 months ago of a pair of mating stick insects. I’ve looked at this photograph many times since then, even including it in a slideshow that I’ve shown to several groups of people.

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Was going through some old observations and just recently noticed this guy chilling with these lady bugs! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/248368253

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My goodness can they have some privacy! :laughing:

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Taking a picture of this bumble I noticed there were multiple other friends there too.

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I’m not sure what kind of a who this is…

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I was so busy trying to take a decent picture of the fish that the crab chilling next to it went completely unnoticed until I uploaded the picture.

In the end both came out all blurry anyway.

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I documented a Neptunia plant. At home I detected a bug hiding on its fruits.


https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/252595909

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