TIL Guess what this is...

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TIL Guess what this is...
Well you learn something new every day.
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Have a guess at what's in the picture below and then check out this link.

[link](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/spiders-leaves-china-camouflage/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20161116news-leafspiders&utm_campaign=Content&sf42615893=1)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/news/2016/11/15/leaf-spider/leaf-spider-02.adapt.710.1.jpg

I'm used to these for great forms of camouflage... the praying mantis family... we get all kinds of camoflage varieties where I grew up.

https://media.mnn.com/assets/images/2014/07/leafmantis.jpg.638x0_q80_crop-smart.jpg

And the best I have seen in spiders is this...

http://www.ispotnature.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/preview/images/42480/b4d68660c4a56181cd886fe5ecc08f71.jpg?nav=related

I've typically bumped into the above while clambering about the pecan nut trees picking pecan nuts.

Its called a bark spider and you usually only notice it when it moves the rest of the time it looks like a node where a branch broke off.
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