Recently my ischia black has began to show a little new growth so i have been observing it and today saw this little bug that blended in rather well with the leaf.
It would be great if it could suck the FMV right out of plant, yeah right!
Enjoy

I like how you pictures always seem to capture nature in motion...just love it.
are you sure you didn't work for National Geographic Channel or something 

AFB, i get 1 in 10 pictures to look nice, my daughter is much better with the camera and she took those pictures so i cannot take the credit.
I did take a decent picture of the chicago hardy breba recently posted and that picture kinda surprised me as it came out nice but for me its a crap shoot.

Diesler
The bug was trying to camouflage itself but you caught it.

Check out my critter!

wow i had to look twice just to see it...how did you find it to take the picture

Just luck I guess! I found him on my VdB in the Spring.
Sue

The is some art and skill to taking a good picture, and much of this can be learned. And there is also being in the right place at the right time, which cannot be learned and doesn't happen every day, even to professioinals (do you have any idea how many hours/days/weeks Nat Geo photogs spend getting "the" picture?). And for some, there is the "gift", which cannot be denied. And, finally, the real secret is taking 100 pix and choosing the good one. No one ever asks how many hundreds of pix did it take to get "that one". They just ooh and aah at the good one. In general, when I am photographing a fig, I take 30-40 pix and keep 3-4. For me, that is how it works.

Nice bugs, Sue.

Are these examples of the term: "You are what you eat"?  Excellent examples of great camouflage.   

A friend of mine in Queensland, Aus is a photographer that loves figs. So I've got her some fig trees and the other day she sent me this.

Maybe some sort of collection of pictures stored somewhere of all the fig fanatics bug pictures would be an idea?