This little long-horned groundhopper surprised me with its really good camo suit 
and just three millimeters long.
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As it happens, just today I, too, came across a grasshopper winning at camouflage:
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This underwing moth’s dark stripes nearly line up perfectly with the cracks in the bark it is perched on
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Wavy-lined emeralds (or camo loopers as people around here call them) aren’t particularly rare, but I never consciously saw one until last year. Even now, when flipping through photos on this site, my mind usually goes, “bit of debris on flower, stop, look twice or three times, yes it is a looper …” There’s something delightful about the careful way they snip bits of petal to dress themselves in.
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A well camouflaged Spotted Wolf Spider, (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266214548) found literally by accident.
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The Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor) is easily heard, but difficult to find, especially where bark is mottled with lichens.
Image from Observation 216380722:
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This tolype moth caterpillar was so well-camouflaged with the rock and I almost couldn’t see it!
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https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/191377251
Or using lichen: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/249429303
If they stayed still, maybe they would be “winning at camouflage.” Seeing a pile of dead bugs crawling around (or lichen crawling around) is kind of a giveaway.
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There are a few Phalera species in my area that primarily use one of two types of camouflage.
Some look like bird poop –
Phalera flavescens | 먹무늬재주나방 | Observation
While others look like pieces from broken branches –
Phalera grotei | Grote’s Buff-Tip · 배얼룩재주나방 | Observation
Phalera assimilis | 참나무재주나방 | Observation
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I have no idea what the insect is and I don’t think I have it posted on iNaturalist because I don’t remember where the photo was taken except that it is in Colorado somewhere and it photo bombed my flower photo.
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I think it is a crab spider, but can’t be sure.
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