National Geographic has a photo gallery showing off some of nature’s clever disguises. Well worth a look.
There are two bugs in this picture. Seriously.
“Leaf knockoffs down to brown spots and notched edges, two Mimetica katydids with twiglike legs can rest or feed without drawing attention”.
In case you’re still not sure, here they are:
The gallery is well worth looking at. Below are a few more of by favorites.
Not a snake…
Finally, this is a great mantis. Nature is awesome.
Last night was pretty exciting/intense. We woke up at 01h30 to hear sirens outside. I got up and went out onto the balcony to see what was going on.
Chaos!
There was a huge fire raging on Devils Peak behind the house. The police were driving up and down the streets using a loud-speaker to tell people to evacuate and move away from the fire area.
Cars and people were streaming down from the higher blocks. There was stacks of smoke blowing down the hill and even burning embers landing in the street.
We cruised around for a while but the smoke was too hectic to stick outside for long. At one stage it looked as if the Western most of the Disa Park towers might burn down.
Thank heavens the fire fighters managed to beat the flames off and by this morning the choppers were making sure that everything was out.
An exciting evening indeed.