Winning at Camouflage

[oksanaetal]

I agree!

[joeylikesbirds]

I am I just crazy or does it look like a beetle? Maybe it’s a spider-mimic beetle. Or a beetle-mimic spider!

Something like this, maybe at a weird angle?

[sebastiandoak]

Small hairy with three body parts, I would say it looks kinda velvet anty? Still a guess but I would definitly lean hexapod.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=34&taxon_id=48513

[Ajott]

For sure no spider with those antennae.. my very first thought was velvet ant as well because of its surface texture, but then I am not sure if the little guy is just covered in pollen

[tjeales]

Stephanopis sp.

[Clip]

To me it looks like it is the ant family.

[DitchingIt]

Sometimes it takes the dive guide…

…to show it to you.

[joeylikesbirds]

It does look a lot like a velvet ant, I agree.

[bonesigh]

found this one on my bonsai

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/163720865
I didn’t let me get close enough to get a better picture. Kinda ironic considering how well it’s camouflaged.

[leafybye]

Fun thread,

brush rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani)

[tjeales]

Ceratofulvius tuberculatus

[shreedave]

Here is an Orthopteran whose name I forgot. (iNat is catching Zs right now).

[shreedave]

Now iNat’s back! And this is some Short Horned Grasshopper after all :(

[Marie-B]

A crab, I only saw it because it moved.

[shreedave]

Can you spot this locust?

[isopodguy]

Shrimps in the family Crangonidae blend in with sand really well, especially when they partly bury themselves,
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/267967033
and so do pacific staghorn sculpins.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/248089108

[phma]

I see an orthopteran hind leg sticking out from under what looks like grass.

[shreedave]

I saw there are hardly any bird photos here, so here’s a Paddyfield Pipit. It can only be spotted if it runs or flies.

[sethshively]

You win this thread so far. I can’t for the life of me find the rabbit in this photo

[oksanaetal]

Heh heh I found it in about 2 seconds.