Winning at Camouflage

[aditya_puthenpura]

yes yes I had this in mind, theres no scope of Identification for this :)

[sebastiandoak]

I didnt get that feeling, I was just giving a comparative type situation. So I was wondering if maybe they were referring to something earlier.

[jarvo]

This Buff Tip has got the hang of it.

[jarvo]

Snipe are pretty good. I guess most people will easily see the one centre-shot, but what about the one on the left? And when they’re in the long grass, well, that’s a different story altogether.

[Clip]

Long-headed Toothpick Grasshopper (id hasn’t been confirmed yet) looking like common ground debris. Had I not seen it move I never would have known it was there. Fun find.

[Drew_Baxter]

This Malachite Butterfly with its wings closed blended well into the vegetation on the bank of a little stream, then dry, that flowed down the mountain to the bay in the south end of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. The photo was taken on February 16, 2026. The dry season will last until June.

[Ajott]

Amazing.. they are so eye catching, but it works well in their natural habitat

[sebastiandoak]

Whilst the framing makes it hard not to see it. This little critter was a target species on my recent trick, and certainly took some looking.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/345175211
Anoteropsis forsteri

Cenefias do a pretty good job of blending in as well. Only being a few mm helps with that.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/345564194

[DitchingIt]

Some research with rattlesnakes indicates that being in contact with a rope may reduce stress somewhat. The effect is less powerful than being in contact with a conspecific (a behaviour called social buffering) but may involve a visual or tactile correlate. It’s most likely coincidence in this garden, but maybe a hosepipe triggers a low level evolved buffering response which might increase time spent there. Maybe your snake did evolved to like hosepipes

[danly]

That’s a fascinating study!
So my snake could have been trying to de-stress with an ersatz companion.
While also absorbing some moisture from it, if it was damp from recent use.
With the added bonus of some nice camouflage.
A win-win-win situation!

[ra_teo]

Well hidden, I almost missed this Water Scorpion: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/348669758

[Clip]

This Southern Emerald Moth fits this topic pretty well.

[Miyru]

Grasses https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/303164487

[tjeales]

One of the best Poltys sp I’ve seen. Hard to tell it wasn’t just a bit of broken leaf even holding it in my hand.

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/350663777

[swara_aves]

Not a great pic, but here’s a jumpy Oriental Garden Lizard which blended perfectly into the dry grass!

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/351047648

[LostInCR]

A common paraque has been incubating two eggs next to the road to my house. It is nearly invisible without a careful scanning of the leaves.

[nilshelstrom]

A Tan Jumping Spider (Platycryptus undatus) hides very well on a roof tile (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/352695279)…

[scharf]

Wow, that looks so much like a cuttlefish!

[dendroleon]

[kanescompendium]

Nice capture! I saw a ‘peppered moth’ recently that had a similar effect against bark but this is outstanding.