I’m so proud of myself for finding it after 2-3 minutes of staring. This feels like my greatest achievement yet.
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Nice! Managed to find it within about 20 seconds by just quickly scanning along, looking for any shapes that didn’t quite fit in (I’m used to using this method to search for tiny arthropods like springtails and thrips, lol).
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Ive posted Acris blanchardi (Blanchard’s Cricket Frog) here before and I probably will again.. More often than not I don’t even notice them until they jump near me.
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Lizards you say? No, I haven’t seen any lizards…. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/318215530
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I had posted this before but here it goes again (a lot of new people have come to the forum). From my crazy trip to West Mexico. One of the best quality camouflage in action you will ever see.
Do you want to know at least what it is?
If you’ve got the solution just crop or draw a circle on the photo and send it to me in a private message.
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An observation that I identified three years ago, with five clearly visible tadpoles. Or, maybe not so clearly visible, since it went untouched in those three years until someone ventured “Life” yesterday.
Frogs and Toads (Order Anura) from Caguas, Puerto Rico
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Old photo of a planthopper nymph in the tribe Stenocotini. I had an alert about it and on my phone I could not find the subject of the photo no matter how much I zoomed.
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While I was scanning my old photos from Alaska from 1983, I came across this marmot who was doing his (her?) best impression of a boulder. From a distance, among all the rocks, he was invisible until he moved.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/323287154
That night he (or one of his friends) gave us a real fright by jumping on our tent, then scurrying off.
Also this grouse would have been impossible to spot amidst the tundra vegetation, if it hadn’t spread its tail (look for its body and head to the right of the tail)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/322817046
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This Nursery Web Spider is definitely am expert with camouflage, i only noticed it because of some random cricket hanging near a node and second, its legs overriding from the dead branch. That spider gave me hard time trying to photograph it due to how well it camouflaged that got my eyes subconsciously darting and also because of its highly sensitive-to-movement nature it has.
Actually this is the cricket i meant—it wasn’t supposed to move a bit in attempt to camouflage before i lifted the long part of a thin tree and now moved from its supposed spot. Its much easier to spot this cricket than the spider but it did manage to get my eyes to dart off somewhere when i try to look away.
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I’m not sure which photo had the bird on the ground. I had no trouble seeing the bird moving, but in the still picture it looks just like the ground. Based on this ob just a few meters away, I think it’s a sparrow.
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That is a great photo you have there!
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I finally see it! Wow, it’s really hidden.
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This Blair’s Shoulder-Knot (Lithophane leautieri) on a concrete wall: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/324125956
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This is probably not what Darwin was thinking. On the industrial dock amidst the flotsam and jetsam.
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This reminds me, I have an old observation of one of these types of caterpillars I need to upload some time. I always wondered what the heck they were till I started using iNat!
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I saw some webbing, eggs, and a molt attached to a tree. Took a couple photos and moved on - not realizing the spider itself was right there..
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This moth, Idaea dimidiata, seen in my UK garden last year, showed amazing camouflage against a concrete slab. How is it possible for something natural to be so well camouflaged against a man-made background?! There were so many other more natural places it could have settled, but it would have been far more conspicuous.
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