Not That Good A Disguise, Obviously

A rare spider described as a "master of disguise" has been sighted in Cornwall, an expert says.

QED.

Tylan Berry, county spider recorder for the British Arachnological Society, said the "nationally rare" lichen running spider was sighted at West Muchlarnick, a temperate rainforest site near Looe. The "amazing looking" creature with its "incredible colour and camouflage" is "incredibly difficult to spot", he said.

But you spotted this one just fine! So maybe they aren’t as rare as you’d imagined?

They reside in "scattered pockets" between Cornwall and Surrey in the south of Britain, and in the Caledonian pine forests in Scotland. He said: "There is no evidence of the spider living anywhere between these two hugely separated areas."

Or maybe you just aren’t seeing it?