The phrase "and hard to recognize" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is difficult to identify or distinguish, often due to changes or alterations.
Example: "The old building had been renovated so extensively that it was now unrecognizable and hard to recognize."
Alternatives: "and difficult to identify" or "and challenging to discern."
Some things like the orchids and wasps are blurrier and harder to recognize in the collection, but the spider is an easy one to see.
What's worrying is that, as the technology in the skimmers improve, it's both easier to deploy (for the evildoers) and harder to recognize (for victims).
As megacities, sprawl and megalopolitan regions increasingly characterize urbanization, it gets harder and harder to recognize either the location or the logic of boundaries.
The draft would prohibit women from wearing any garment, including the burqa and niqab, that covers the face and makes it hard to recognize them in public.
And that's hard to recognize when you're in the unhealthy.
They are not easy to identify during genome annotation because transposases are highly variable and therefore are hard to recognize using BLAST-based approaches alone.
We all want to think the best of our own traditions and practices, and it can be hard to recognize where members of our culture, region, race or religion caused (and continues to cause) harm to others.
A spy told Huffington Post that Heigl, dressed down in a tweed blazer and bun, sat between costar and best friend T.R. Knight (hard to recognize with a new buzz cut) and her fiance Josh Kelley at a round table of about eight people.
"The very first time a hen let me gently rub her naked, nubby head, I was surprised at the softness of her skin, and it wasn't hard to recognize contentment when she sat down, closed her eyes and basked in the pleasure of a gentle touch from a human".
Memorial Garage was also real, but never got beyond releasing their own cassettes, and would be very hard to recognize.
