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Anna's Hummingbird in a nest camouflaged with lichens
From Berkeley, California. Image 1

Anna's Hummingbird in a nest camouflaged with lichens
From Berkeley, California. Image 2

Mule deer have eaten all of the lichens they could reach on these oak trees, creating an obvious"browse line". From the Hastings Natural History Reservation of the University of California, Carmel Valley, California.

In a fenced "deer exclusion zone" the lichens (mostly Ramalina menziesii) hang almost to the ground. From the Hastings Natural History Reservation of the University of California, Carmel Valley, California. Image 1

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In a fenced "deer exclusion zone" the lichens (mostly Ramalina menziesii) hang almost to the ground. From the Hastings Natural History Reservation of the University of California, Carmel Valley, California. Image 2

A moth, camouflaged to look like lichens.
From northern California.

A red mite on Heterodermia speciosa
From Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas.

The marks show where a snail has been feeding on this Pertusaria sp.

Are these snail tracks through the lichen on the tree trunk? On a palm tree in the Florida Keys.

Eggs on Dimelaena oreina 1
From Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, eastern Arizona.

Eggs on Dimelaena oreina 2
From Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, eastern Arizona.
Does anyone recognize what animal laid these?

A Northern Flying Squirrel. In the forests of northern Idaho they build nests from lichen, mostly species of Bryoria.

Scientists in Idaho built nest boxes in a study of Boreal Owls. But the Flying Squirrels moved into the boxes and made their own nests of Bryoria.

A Flying Squirrel glides away from a nest box.

Examining a nest box 1

Examining a nest box 2

Retrieving a Bryoria nest from one of the tree boxes.

Inside a nest box a tiny baby Flying Squirrel lies in a nest of Bryoria.

Examining a nest of Bryoria, removed from one of the nest boxes. Image 1

Examining a nest of Bryoria, removed from one of the nest boxes. Image 2

Lacewing larva camouflaged with lichen. Image 1
On a Beech tree. From Big Thicket National Preserve, eastern Texas.

Lacewing larva camouflaged with lichen. Image 2
On a Beech tree. From Big Thicket National Preserve, eastern Texas.

Lacewing larva camouflaged with lichen. Image 3
On a Beech tree. From Big Thicket National Preserve, eastern Texas.

A Neuropteran larva, camouflaged with lichen. Image 1
On an oak tree, North Carolina.

A Neuropteran larva, camouflaged with lichen. Image 2
On an oak tree, North Carolina.

The empty pupae cases of Solenobia walshella hang from Xanthoria parietina on a marble gravestone, Bass Harbor, Maine.

Empty pupae cases attached to Physcia adscendens

A spider web camouflaged with lichens.

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