It seems I’m not the best outlining…(SPOILER ALERT)
That’s what I was calling ‘‘outlined’’…
Here I finally have the photo!!! Can you find the grasshopper?
If you found it, draw a circle outlining the insect and send me the answer in a private message…
Good luck!
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It took me forever to shoot this one because I don’t use a flash and it was pretty dim (shooting handheld at ISO 10000 too).
I kept having to memorize background clues to relocate it for each shot. And then I’m trying to confirm on the camera screen if I got it or not. Then I decided to use the little illuminator LED on the front and I managed to get something, well… discernible.
When I got home to photo process I realized that I could clearly see the details but that I still needed to push the contrast up to help land an ID.
Then I discovered that what I thought was the order, was in fact wrong when an IDer pointed it out.
For me, at least, one of the most challenging captures so far, based on the degree of camouflage.
I seem to be reaching the conclusion that the more tolerant some animal is of multiple attempts to record it, up close–the more confident it is of its own ‘invisibility’.
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Reminds me of 2 iNat observations: an ocelot hiding in a tree, and the gator/log debate.
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I just don’t see it–where??
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Second pile of wood from the left, second log from the back/top has a light orange cat, face is barely visible on right edge of the log.
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Hiding in plain sight. Incredible.
I wonder if there’s ever been a visual natural environment where a naked human could just sit and not be noticed?
No, on second thought. I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know.
(Did I ever tell you about my summer job at the mannequin factory?)
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Depending on skin and hair color, maybe nudist beaches? Pretty sure that’s not going to end up posted here, though.
Oh man I totally missed that. Was it a feral?
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Not sure, I found it as a meme from somewhere, so no idea where it came from, originally.
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Ah, I thought it was your photo.
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This is one of my observations, a moth that looks like a wasp.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124486588
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Wow. I couldn’t find the cat either, but once you gave directions, it was so obvious I couldn’t miss it.
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I am a sucker for cool eye spots especially on moths, but the Sun Bittern especially has my heart! I haven’t seen another bird with such large eyespots!
although some owls have them on the back of the head to deter mobbing songbirds!
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Hey, I just saw some noisy birds mobbing an owl this morning.
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I recently found out about an incredible example of camouflage from Ed Yong’s book An Immense World. The mechanism is unclear, but it appears that puff adders can disguise not only their appearance, but also their smell! Other animals with keen noses, like dogs, can detect the shed skin of a puff adder but cannot detect a live one, even when it’s right beneath their feet.
It’s one of those nature facts that just flattened me when I learned it. How???
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As plastic waste and other human artifacts pile up in natural places, I wonder how soon animals will evolve to mimic these items. The bottle cap beetle? The baling twine millipede?
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I completely forgot peacocks were birds. Woops!
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Or you probably forgot you’ve seen them…