Mimicry and Camouflage 1
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A pair of ambush bugs (Phymatidae) perch among the nectaries of a wild poinsettia plant in Florida. | A camouflaged long-horned wood-boring beetle (Cerambycidae) from Trinidad. | A crab spider sits hidden, poised to attack a pollinator attracted to the flower. |
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| An Amazonian katydid (Acanthodis sp.) on the trunk of a rainforest tree. | An amazingly cryptic walkingstick is invisible on a lichen covered twig in a rainforest in the Amazon Basin of Peru. | A mottled sphinx moth on a dappled tree trunk in Trinidad. |
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| An immature short-horned grasshopper on a sandy beach in Costa Rica. | A unicorn caterpillar (Notodontidae) blends in with the diseased edge of a leaf on a tree in Florida. | A praying mantis camouflaged on the forest floor in the Amazon Basin of Peru. |
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