Winning at Camouflage

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/307100823

Moths are just really good at this

Finally! I found something that I hope rivals the bunny posted above! I admit that there is a huge background, but I also guarantee that you can really find what you need to.
Find https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/260574344 in the following to photographs. Same frog, different areas.

  1. Should be easy!
  2. Try this one!

This odonata was not so hard to spot when moving or on the walls of the tiny pond. But it dissappeared when still.


Red-bellied Snake blending in quite well with old pine needles

Haha!

That frog is just like: Nobody can see me!!

Predator: Nothing yummy here!

Us: Ooh, pretty!!

That’s some pretty cool camouflage!

We, (me and my brother), spent a lot of time trying to spot it. We first saw it leap out of the pond and then disappearing from sight. The funny thing is, I hadn’t seen it before clicking these photographs. I photographed the first one, but we couldn’t see it anywhere, so we decided to leave.

As I was just about to leave, I spotted it in the photograph in my camera! When we went back there, it was not there anymore.

I was going to leave again, but my brother, who is somehow very interested in observing Bullfrogs, (not any other type of frogs), told me to click another photograph! I did so, (which is the second one), and again I spotted it in the camera, maybe because I was equipped with zoom!

Finally we crossed the pond and went close, and you can see the end result in the observation!

Pretty cool! It looks so funny peering out at you in the second photo! :)

This little guy is better hidden than my camera thinks, I thought it was a bit of the paint pulling away from the ceiling at first glance! Then I realized it was too perfectly shaped lol

Agriphila geniculea: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/311205730

Well hidden Lipophrys trigloides fish!

It was really friendly (perhaps because is toxic) and I almost missed it!

Turned out being very cute!

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/311215950

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unexpectedly-cute-observations-what-are-yours/35644

I’m sure this fly didn’t evolve to blend in with asphalt, but it couldn’t have done better if it tried!

Maybe not asphalt, but possibly conglomerate.

In the Dominican Republic, I have seen a similar-looking one that blends in nearly perfectly with the beach sand.

A juvenile ghost crab, Ocypode gaudichaudii

Acris blanchardi (Blanchard’s Cricket Frog)

Same bird, different angle.

Least Sandpiper

Yes I also stared directly at it for three minutes without seeing anything. I don’t even understand how does it hide so good if it has no cryptic disruptive coloration, but all the opposite.

Least Sandpipers are extremely good at camouflage. Where I live, in Mexico, we have too much Sargassum, and these birds just put themselves on it to become invisible. But their camouflage is even more evident after finding them. You can still lose the from your sight again.

Whoah! Those live in my area but I have never seen one. I’ve seen Aegimia sp. though, which are also insane.