Masters of Camouflage
Camouflage is a key strategy of species to hide from predators, but also to be invisible for prey. Typically, camouflaged species blend in with their environment. Yet, there are also species who use camouflage to do the opposite. For example, the Attackus butterfly has a snake head pattern on their wings to make it look like something scary.
Ferdy Christant created this list 14 years ago
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Spiny-Legged Jumping Spider - Phaeacius malayensis -
Pallid winged grasshopper -
Dun-bar / European Dun-bar in habitat, Heeswijk-Dintherse Bossen, Netherlands -
Children's stick insect -
Small bird-dropping spider (Arkys Cutulus) -
Phyllium Giganteum - Giant Walking Leaf -
Eastern fence lizard -
White-banded Fishing Spider (Dolomedes albineus) ♂ -
Great Camouflage - Wrap around spider - Dolophones turrigera -
Speckled Crab on Hutchinson Island -
Camouflaged brown cutworm moth -
Tassled scorpionfish - Scorpaenopsis oxycephala -
A wet boulder ... no, wait! -
Typophyllum mortuifolium, or maybe a damaged leaf with antennae -
A leaf-mimic katydid (Roxelana crassicornis) at night near Iquitos, Peru -
A jumping spider (Habronattus amicus) hiding in the sand -
Euthrix potatoria - Caterpillar, portrait -
Pentobesa densissima (Notodontidae) -
Skeleton Shrimp - Caprella sp. -
Crocodile Flathead - Cymbacephalus beauforti -
Spider decorator crab - Camposcia retusa -
Denises pygmy seahorse - Hippocampus denise -
Eremiaphila genei -
Pink Allied Cowry - Aclyvolva coarctata