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  1. @cthon1c @futurebird

    The camouflage is so good that you could look right at that branch a dozen times and your brain would completely register it as just a minor side-shoot. It's a spectacular find!

    #biology
    #caterpillars
    #masquerade

  2. @cthon1c @futurebird

    The Invisible Silk Safety Rope: Holding your entire body weight out horizontally like a diving board takes massive muscular effort. To save energy, the caterpillar spins a microscopic, nearly invisible strand of silk from its mouth and attaches it to the main branch. It then leans back and lets the silk thread act as a guy-wire to hold its body up, like a suspension bridge!

    #biology
    #caterpillars
    #masquerade

  3. @cthon1c @futurebird

    The Catapult Stance: To make the disguise work, it can't just lie flat against the branch. It uses its rear set of prolegs to anchor itself firmly to the stem, and then hooks its entire body outward at a rigid, straight angle. It can hold this completely motionless, rigid "stick" posture for hours at a time to fool hungry birds.

    #biology
    #caterpillars
    #masquerade

  4. @cthon1c @futurebird

    How It Pulls Off the Trick

    The "Twig" Illusion: It isn't just brown and cylindrical; its body is covered in tiny, rough ridges and pale markings that perfectly match the bark, nodes, and lenticels of the actual hazel or birch branch it is holding onto. Even its head is shaped to look like a dead terminal bud at the end of a twig.

    #biology
    #caterpillars
    #masquerade

  5. @cthon1c @futurebird

    Masquerade: This is the precise sub-category for our caterpillar. It doesn't hide against a background, and it isn't trying to look scary. Instead, it is fully visible, but it has evolved to look like a specific, inanimate object (a twig) that a predator has zero interest in eating. To a passing bird, the caterpillar isn't invisible; it’s just completely uninteresting junk food.

    #masquerade
    #biology
    #caterpillars

  6. @cthon1c @futurebird

    This incredible little master of disguise is an inchworm, which is the caterpillar stage of a Geometrid moth (family Geometridae).

    Specifically, this looks like one of the Twig Mimic Caterpillars (often found in genera like Biston or Synaxis). They have evolved one of the most flawless camouflage strategies in the entire animal kingdom.

    It's not camouflage or mimicry, it's masquerade.

    #masquerade
    #caterpillars

  7. Clever staging, I don't know what the live crowd would think.
    I like the tune, but it could be a bit "this door sticks" in terms of lyrics for me! #Masquerade #gnu

    #Eurovision #Den

  8. Five minutes into #Masquerade. #RobLowe and #KimCattrall have the same breast size!

    themoviedb.org/movie/41963-mas

    ("Sensitive" attachment: male and female nudity)

  9. Waves rise and fall with ceaseless motion, surging with power and retreating into abyss. They envelop silently and erode that which seems immovable, blurring the boundary between the way things seem and the way they are.

    foxandthistle.studio/

    #foxandthistle #theLiminal #design #artist #handdrawn #illustration #inktober #sharpie #masquerade #mask #halloween #spooky #spookyseason #theveil #thevoid #secrets

  10. Hola comunidad! 👋

    📚 Pregunta de examen de la semana!

    Relacionada con el nuevo curso que estamos por publicar, y con el contenido compartido esta semana... veamos si prestaron atención 🤓

    ❓ ¿Qué diferencia hay entre SNAT y MASQUERADE en firewalls como iptables/nftables?

    Qué opinan? 💬

    El viernes publico el feedback! Estén atentos ✨

    #gnu #linux #juncotic #educacion #softwarelibre #opensource #freesoftware #sysadmin #devops #tcpip #firewall #nat #snat #masquerade #iptables #nftables #netfilter