Great camouflage. But.........

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    Great camouflage but it was almost the undoing of this caterpillar.
    Son was pruning one of his bonsai pines and was about to give a dead twig the snip when he realised it wasn't a twig and it wasn't dead either!!

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      OMG! cool caterpillar
       
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      Would have served it right if it did get the chop. Sneaking about being all sneaky and all.
       
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      Ain't Mother Nature clever? Great detail there Dave.
      Thank you for showing us this little chap,
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        Nature is very clever, when you consider different animals ways of matching their environments, how about this Pygmy Seahorse :-

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