#camouflaged

[littlepawz]

Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend!

–~Mehmet Murat İldan~

[kimberly40]

Amazing! This is a Camouflaged Looper, a Caterpillar That Makes Its Own Flower “Costume”. To avoid predators, Camouflaged Loopers adorn themselves with fragments of the plant they are feeding on! They’ll clip off flower parts and bits of leaves with their mouth and then attach them to their back with silk.

If you’re observant (and a bit lucky), you can find them in fields and woodland edges from spring to early autumn. They feed on a wide variety of plants, including the leaves of goldenrod, coneflowers and blackberries.

When they moult or switch host plants, they’ll even do a costume change to match the new plant.

Camouflaged Loopers turn into Wavy-lined Emerald Moths.

🐛 Learn more at: https://blog.nature.org/2023/05/08/the-camouflaged-looper-this-inchworm-makes-its-own-flower-costume/

[onenicebugperday]

Orache moth, Trachea atriplicis, Noctuidae

Photographed in France by Matthieu Berroneau

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[canisalbus]

Machete would be the saddest wettest worm on a string

Pictured here in his natural habitat.

[tenth-sentence]

In pairs they galloped by, and though every now and then one rose in his stirrups and gazed ahead and to either side, they appeared not to perceive the three strangers sitting silently and watching them.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" - J.R.R. Tolkien

[meddlingstarks]

Can you believe they had the nerve, the gall, the gumption to cut when book Peeta says “You here to finish me off, sweetheart?”, one of the most iconic lines that established his flirty personality and cute banter with Katniss?? He’s literally in immense pain, dying from a leg injury, buried under a wall of mud that’s infecting the wound, and still has the energy to tease her. Not to mention the innuendo, come on.

[shopping490490]

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[artifacts-and-arthropods]

The Camouflaged Looper: these caterpillars fashion their own camouflage by collecting flower petals/vegetation and using silk to "glue" the pieces onto their bodies

Often referred to as "camouflaged loopers," the caterpillars are the larvae of the wavy-lined emerald moth (Synchlora aerata).

Camouflaged loopers deploy a unique form of self-defense -- they snip off tiny pieces of the flowers upon which they feed, then use bits of silk to attach the vegetation to their backs. This provides them with a kind of camouflage, enabling them to blend in with the plants that they eat.

Some of them create little tufts that run along their backs, while others fashion a thicker camouflage that covers their backs completely. In some cases, the camouflaged loopers will even build much larger bundles that surround their entire bodies.

Their range includes most of North America (from southern Canada down through Texas) and they can feed upon an enormous variety of plants, so the disguises that these caterpillars build can come in countless colors, shapes, and sizes, incorporating many different flowers and other plants.

And this is what the fully-developed moth looks like:

Sources & More Info:

Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy: Wavy-Lined Emerald, Master of Disguise

Maryland Biodiversity Project: Wavy-Lined Emerald Moth (Synchlora aerata)

The Caterpillar Lab: Camouflaged Looper

University of Alberta Museums: Synchlora aerata

Missouri Department of Conservation: Wavy-Lined Emerald

Nebraskaland Magazine: The Amazing Camouflaged Looper

Lake County Forest Preserves: Camouflage Revealed

[littlepawz]

The trick to not being discovered until it is too late is to become part of the expected surroundings. Stealth is more the art of blending in with the background than sneaking through dark shadows.

~Raymond E. Feist~

[montereybayaquarium]

Little red octopus 🐙❤️

These little red octopus are sea-ternly the masters of disguise, thanks to their ability to change color and texture to blend seamlessly with their surroundings. Check out those inkredible hiding skills!

[gotitcovereddesigns]

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[onenicebugperday]

Lichen mimic flatid planthopper, Atracis cretacea, Flatidae

Photographed in India by girishgowda

[laughingsquid]

How Animals Use Camouflage to Fool the Eyes of Predators and Prey

[canisalbus]

wanted to voice my appreciation for how angular machete is, and how he gets even more angular when he's displeased

He's a little bit like that one owl that gets pointy when threatened.

[crocwork-clockodile]

I am inconsolable.

Because this is the whole thing, isn't it? Sam Vimes wants to be back in his own present, with his wife and his Watch and his world, but he can't yet. He can't just let this play out and abandon it, because that would mean people died on his watch (heh). And if he made that call... well. He wouldn't be Sam Vimes anymore.

He has to do this. He has to do the job that's in front of him. And I haven't read this book before, so I don't know how it all turns out, and neither does he, anymore, but this integrity, this factory default setting of Sam Vimes to care about people and fight for them... I just get so emotional when Pratchett lays bare his thesis statement or the fundamental essence of his characters... I don't even have an analytical point here I'm just Feeling a Lot