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Life in Color: Brown

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A curling fern leaflet provides the perfect cover for a camouflaged brown geometrid caterpillar. This Hawaiian caterpillar disguises itself in order to lie in wait and hunt unsuspecting insects by ambush.
Photograph by Robert Sisson

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