Lichen Katydid

Holy cow that's huge

Incredible anthropod. It must be a very powerful camouflage out there in the wild

amazing!

Congratulations Rachelle, this awesome spotting is featured in the Project Noah today, which is on "Masters of Disguise"! http://blog.projectnoah.org/post/29901816272/masters-of-disguise

CRAZY! Love it!

Wow!!!! Fascinating!!!Congrats

wooooouu nunca habia visto un insecto como este!

Stranissimo ... mai visto !! wow ...

This is one of the coolest katydids I have ever seen!

Wow! What an amazing creature!

Grandioso que formas

Awesome spotting!

woooooow never seen such a thing

Unbelievable! Great spotting

Incredible!!

Fantastic - it does look like lichen - congratulations !!

Please, update your other IDs...

Congrats! A wonderful and amazing creature!

This is a well deserved spotting of the day!

Congratulations Rachelle Smith

So COOL!!!!

cool!

Wowww. Amazing!

That katydid is wicked looking!

Congrats Rachelle. Well deserved.

What a beautiful creature

Congratulations

Congratulations Rachelle! Wonderful spotting

This master of mimicry has been selected as Spotting of the Day! Congratulations Rachelle! "One of the wildest examples of camouflage we've seen yet! This lichen-mimicking katydid blends in masterfully with the trees and rocks it climbs." Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151359030240603&set=a.10151164681410603.791492.10150120463815603&type=1&theater Twitter: http://twitter.com/projectnoah/status/176828352659857408

Weird & wonderful!

Amazing!

WOW - thanks for sharing this with us!

Wow Amazing legs!

It took some collaboration, but it looks like an ID has emerged which I've added above. Such an incredible little insect. Thanks to BrazilianGamer and Funkentelechy from the Whatsthisbug subreddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbug/comments/qgfmh/incredible_camouflage_found_in_panama_any_ideas/

Stunning.

It is a grasshopper. Maybe related to this: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8489120

Oh my goodness... that is amazing. Let's name it.

This really is a wow spotting!

This is incredible, it sould be spotting of the day

Wow. Amazing.

Wow, very cool :)

Everyone else has already said wow...but WOW! What a cool bug!!

Oh My!! Now that's a camo'ed bug!! Nice spotting!! :)

Woow Incredible spotting !

Wow, how cool! Looks like it probably could hang easily on an evergreen bush and never be seen. You could add it to the mimetic animals mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8015991

That's unbelievable...I had to look twice on the thumbnail...looks like it is mimicing a reindeer-moss!

Oh wow if I hadn't clicked on it I would have thought it was moss...great camo for a bug!

Wow! That's so cool!

That's definitely my favorite spotting of the day (so far)!

Seems unreal. Wonderful spotting!