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Phymata sp.
When I looked at the Buckwheat flowers, there was one small spot that appeared slightly off. It was a little too blue-green. I snapped a photo and zoomed in. I was surprised to find a face staring back at me (image 5). This nymph was 6 mm long and was just short of perfectly camouflaged. It has some brown spots and yellow eyes but is mostly white. The underside, legs and side of the head is a blue-green.
Buckwheat flowers in chaparral
Nature is awesome!
Spotted on May 6, 2014
Submitted on May 6, 2014
41 Comments (1–25)
Thank you Jason and Marta! I really appreciate all of the support from the community who love nature as much as I do.
Congratulations!! For me was a sure "must-win", because of its beauty and difficulty to be found :-)
Stunning!! Congrats! Thanks for sharing..
Thank you Sckel and Tom!
Great spotting, it blends in perfectly with the flowers. Congrats on SOTD!
Congratulations, cindy. wonderful spotting.
Thank you so much, Ashley!!! When a couple days went by without a comment, I thought perhaps it was too well camouflaged :)
Congrats Cindy! This is the first time my suggestion for sotw has actually won :) But if I didn't suggest it first, I have no doubts that someone else would have, it is a fantastic series!
Thank you Viv, Satyen, arlanda, Leuba, Rieko and António!
Awesome Cindy,just to much beautiful to be true :-)
Congrats on the well deserved SOTW and thanks for sharing such a beautiful spotting page
Congratulations!
Wow ! Congratulations, Cindy !!
Congratulations!
Congrats :)
Amazing!!
Incredible! Great spotting Cindy
Thank you so much, Yasser, fellow Rangers and friends! Nature is awesome!
Congratulations Cindy !
Congratulations Cindy! This one is so fantastic.
Cindy, I still can't get over how you spotted this little dude! I have to agree with everything Neil said! What an amazing little bug with such masterful camouflage. Congratulations on earning Ranger Spotting of the Week honors with this super series and thanks for sharing so many incredible encounters!
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Thank you Lauren and Neil! I guess all my time looking in bushes has paid off ;)
The spotting of the century! How did you know it was there, Cindy? It's so well camouflaged I can barely see it in the photos. Very impressed indeed :-)
Wonderful series Cindy! Love it. Remarkable camouflage!
Thank you Reza and Bhagya!
nice spotting Cindy