depscribe's photos with the keyword: adaptation

I have no way of knowing the proper name of this little inch-long arachnid, but I was much taken with how closely it resembles the yellowjacket hornet, and I suspect that its coloration has something to do with that miserable stringing insect.

This guy was more than three inches from leg tip to leg tip.

The name is made up. I have no idea what this georgeous insect is really called, though it is certainly a moth. Somewhere there is a tree where this moth blends in perfectly, but it wasn't there the day I took this.