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    A couple of insects

    1. Stick insect, hidden in full view

    A couple of insects056A4972 on Flickr

    2. Sitting on the inside of our kitchen window. I don't know what it is.

    A couple of insects056A1945a on Flickr

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    Re: A couple of insects

    OK...OK...this looks like a rosemary bush but where are insects you wanted to show? Don't tell me "they are hidden from view" that is why I can't see it...

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    Re: A couple of insects

    If you say so on the first. Nice captures.

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    Re: A couple of insects

    As a brain teaser, I really like the first one. Took me a couple of seconds. Don't see them like that over in WA.

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    Re: A couple of insects

    I did not see it until the second look....Duh!!! Of course that is the point.

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    Re: A couple of insects

    Thanks everyone for looking and commenting.

    Izzie, it is not actually rosemary but some small shrub that my wife has in a pot in front of the house.

    This view includes the whole stick insect. The two front legs and the feelers point forward.

    A couple of insects056A4977 on Flickr

    These are the wings - it does not fly very well

    A couple of insects056A4966a on Flickr

    These are the eyes.

    A couple of insects056A4969 on Flickr

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    Re: A couple of insects

    It is really amazing what you have done using photoshop on an uninteresting twig....

    Camouflage at its finest. Well done and seen.

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    Re: A couple of insects

    Well I'll be damn!!!

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    Re: A couple of insects

    What a strange critter!

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    Re: A couple of insects

    Quote Originally Posted by bnnrcn View Post
    What a strange critter!
    Tony don't take it personally most photographers are strange critters.......

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    Re: A couple of insects

    Just a guess, but could the second insect be one of the very large Ichneumon Wasp family?

    But some Sawflies are quite similar.

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    Re: A couple of insects

    Nice catch of the stick.

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    Re: A couple of insects

    Quote Originally Posted by Geoff F View Post
    Just a guess, but could the second insect be one of the very large Ichneumon Wasp family?

    But some Sawflies are quite similar.
    I don't really know but the vies look different to either of these to me.

    Paul, that's all right. "All the world is queer except me and thee, and sometimes ... "

    Binnur, I have been familiar with these stick insects as long as I can remember so they don't look so strange to me. They are quite harmless but feel uncomfortable when they hang on with their sticky feet.

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