TIL Guess what this is...

Well you learn something new every day.

Have a guess at what's in the picture below and then check out this link.

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I'm used to these for great forms of camouflage... the praying mantis family... we get all kinds of camoflage varieties where I grew up.

And the best I have seen in spiders is this...

I've typically bumped into the above while clambering about the pecan nut trees picking pecan nuts.

Its called a bark spider and you usually only notice it when it moves the rest of the time it looks like a node where a branch broke off.