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Last update: 2017-07-27
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Black Tortoise beetle with yellow polkadots [madagascar_masoala_0659]
(Madagascar)
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Red and black caterpillar
(China)
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0
(Malaysia)
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Yellow dragonfly with maroon eyes and blue cheeks [madagascar_ankarafantsika_0511]
(Madagascar)
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Beetles [namibia_2015]
(Namibia)
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Montezuma Oropendula
(Belize)
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Green grasshopper eating a banana leaf
(Colombia)
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Giant dragonfly
(China)
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Green katydid
(China)
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Green spiny caterpillar
(Colombia)
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Turquoise, yellow, and black butterfly
(Indonesia)
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Green shield insect
(Mexico)
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Orange butterfly on flip flops
(Peru)
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Amarynthis meneria butterfly on leaf
(Peru)
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Millipede
(China)
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Sand grasshopper
(United States)
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Brown katydid
(Peru)
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Orange-eyed cicada
(Vietnam)
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Glasshopper [costa_rica_siquirres_0681]
(Costa Rica)
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Iridescent violet butterfly
(Indonesia)
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A hermit crab at Bahia de las Aguilas at Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Possibly a morpho butterfly (species unknown)
(Peru)
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Black butterfly with green spots and an orange mark [belize_7186]
(Belize)
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Flamboyant Flower Beetle (Eudicella gralli)
(0)
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Planthopper nymph [riau_0276]
(Indonesia)
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Rainbow grasshopper [co05-0798]
(Colombia)
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Yellow and black butterfly
(Peru)
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Ferocious looking insect in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Camouflaged insect
(Peru)
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Orange-headed katydid [kalbar_2067]
(Indonesia)
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Insect
(Vietnam)
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Blue morpho on a wooden deck
(Colombia)
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Skipper Butterfly of the Astraptes fulgerator complex in Costa Rica
(Costa Rica)
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Unknown butterfly with orange; brown; and white markings on outer part of the wing
(Peru)
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Green grasshopper
(Peru)
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Frigatebird in the Galapagos
(Ecuador)
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Green mantid [madagascar_masoala_0902]
(Madagascar)
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Grasshopper
(Peru)
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Fishing spider
(Colombia)
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Spider [madagascar_masoala_0914]
(Madagascar)
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Spider-like harvestman
(Colombia)
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Rainbow Milkweed Locust (Phymateus saxosus), a toxic species due to its propensity to eat milkweed [madagascar_5781]
(Madagascar)
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A bright blue beetle in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Insects
(Panama)
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Great Mormon (Papilio memnon) feeding on a red hibiscus
(Indonesia)
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Blue and yellow weevil [sabah_sepilok_0013]
(Malaysia)
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Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_0998a]
(Suriname)
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Millipede
(China)
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0
(Malaysia)
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Grasshopper
(Peru)
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Stunning blue planthopper
(Colombia)
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Ants feeding on a fallen cicada
(Costa Rica)
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Unidentified Dragonfly
(Madagascar)
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Beetle [brazil_154621]
(Brazil)
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Moth [costa_rica_la_selva_1215]
(Costa Rica)
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Assassin bug
(Peru)
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Blue and black butterfly [java_0631]
(Indonesia)
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Green katydid
(China)
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Giant locust
(Colombia)
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Katydid [madagascar_masoala_0917]
(Madagascar)
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Closeup on the jaws of a soldier army ant
(Costa Rica)
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Polka dot moth
(Indonesia)
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Metallic green beetle
(China)
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Katydid [costa_rica_siquirres_0303]
(Costa Rica)
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Butterflies feeding on a flower
(Peru)
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Black and light blue caterpillar
(United States)
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Fly in China
(China)
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Butterfly [costa_rica_siquirres_0866]
(Costa Rica)
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Arachides toras caterpillar
(Panama)
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Butterfly with pink and transparent wings in Costa Rica (Greta oto)
(Costa Rica)
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Saribia buttefly (Lycaenidae), not a Skipper butterfly (Hesperioidea) [madagascar_0723]
(Madagascar)
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Yellow and black Leaf-footed Bug, family Coreidae on screen (unknown species)
(Peru)
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Red beetle
(Suriname)
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Neon red and orange katydid nymph
(Indonesia)
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Green; blue; yellow; red; and black grasshopper
(Peru)
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Red and black katydid
(Vietnam)
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Green grasshopper [madagascar_nosy_komba_0238]
(Madagascar)
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Caterpillar [aceh_0602]
(Indonesia)
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Thorn spider
(Laos)
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Millipede
(Malaysia)
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Blue dragonfly -- borneo_3893
(Malaysia)
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Tiger beetle [java_0666]
(Indonesia)
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Borneo moth
(Malaysia)
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Spider
(Malaysia)
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Striped leafhopper (green, yellow, blue and black)
(Peru)
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Red and blue planthopper
(Malaysia)
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Orange butterfly [riau_1520]
(Indonesia)
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Fishing spider in Madagascar
(Madagascar)
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Green damselfly [sabah_tawau_0434]
(Malaysia)
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Cicada exoskeleton shedding
(Indonesia)
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Wasp
(Malaysia)
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Butterfly [madagascar_5576]
(Madagascar)
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Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_1023]
(Suriname)
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Latern bug (Fulgora lampestris) [sabah_kinabatangan_0378]
(Malaysia)
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Butterfly
(China)
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Black and yellow dragonfly with green eyes
(Indonesia)
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Butterfly on a man's hand
(Peru)
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Colorful; but known grasshopper-like insect
(Peru)
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Colorful butterflies feeding on minerals on a river beach -- malaysia0597
(Malaysia)
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Butterfly in Aceh [aceh_0198]
(Indonesia)
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Black wasp-like insect with indigo blue eyes, orange wings, and orange antenna. This robber fly or mydas fly, (Asilidae or Mydidae family) is a mimic of the Tarantula Hawk Wasp (Pepsis formosa)
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly
(Panama)
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Hot pink insect with turquoise feet and eyes
(Suriname)
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Ferocious looking insect in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Stick insect [kalbar_2072]
(Indonesia)
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Insect
(Peru)
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Ants in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Mossy stick insect [madagascar_perinet_0320]
(Madagascar)
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Walking stick insect
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly [colombia_0448]
(Colombia)
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0
(Malaysia)
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Blue, yellow and orange grasshopper (male) mating with a green and turquoise grasshopper (female)
(Indonesia)
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Orange, yellow, and black butterfly
(Suriname)
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Polybothris Jewel beetle (family Buprestidae) [madagascar_5352]
(Madagascar)
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Red and blue dragonfly
(Costa Rica)
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Tractor millipede [sabah_tawau_0319]
(Malaysia)
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Zanna nobilis
(Indonesia)
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Spider eating an ant
(Malaysia)
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Butterfly
(0)
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Black honeybee
(Costa Rica)
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Bumble bee
(Kenya)
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Weevil
(Indonesia)
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Orb spider
(Vietnam)
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0
(Malaysia)
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Spiny caterpillar
(Costa Rica)
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Orange and black insect
(China)
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Moth [costa_rica_la_selva_1705]
(Costa Rica)
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Green grasshopper with orange eyes
(Indonesia)
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Yellow-green insect on the forest floor
(Costa Rica)
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Green and gray butterfly [sumatra_9360]
(Indonesia)
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Rajah Brooke's Birdwing (Trogonoptera brookiana), a black butterfly with green markings and a bright red head
(Indonesia)
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Blue-eyed dragonfly [kalbar_0392]
(Indonesia)
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Mantid [madagascar_maroantsetra_0074]
(Madagascar)
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Black and yellow centipede
(Peru)
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Whip-scorpion [costa_rica_siquirres_0414]
(Costa Rica)
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0
(Malaysia)
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Green katydid [sumatra_0873]
(Indonesia)
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Turquoise, blue, and yellow weevil [costa_rica_osa_0104]
(Costa Rica)
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Green-eyed, orange-headed, purple-bodied planthopper [kalbar_1842]
(Indonesia)
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Red and green katydid
(Indonesia)
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Blushing Phantom (Cithaerias pireta), a clear-winged butterfly species
(Panama)
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Striped katydid [kalsel_0031]
(Indonesia)
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White planthopper with orange eyes
(China)
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Green stick insect
(Costa Rica)
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Red and black caterpillar
(China)
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Red-pink dragonfly
(Colombia)
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Butterfly
(Suriname)
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Red dragonfly [madagascar_ankarafantsika_0452]
(Madagascar)
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Cicada having just emerged from its shell
(Costa Rica)
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Yellow and black caterpillar [aceh_0433]
(Indonesia)
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Butterfly
(Peru)
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Leaf-mimicking treehopper [madagascar_3518]
(Madagascar)
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Owl butterfly
(Peru)
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Beautiful red,white, and blue butterfly - Malay Red Harlequin (Paralaxita damajanti) butterfly [kalbar_2154]
(Indonesia)
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Tiger beetle [riau_5515]
(Indonesia)
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Female magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens)
(Ecuador)
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Mossy stick insect [madagascar_perinet_0329]
(Madagascar)
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Large Malaysian jungle spider
(Malaysia)
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Nephila spider
(Thailand)
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Chinese butterfly
(China)
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Yellow caterpillar with black spots
(Australia)
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Butterfly [costa_rica_la_selva_0799]
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly [kalbar_0155]
(Indonesia)
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Red and black caterpillar
(China)
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Red shield bug [sumatra_1332]
(Indonesia)
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Leaf-cutter ants [costa-rica_0827]
(Costa Rica)
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Green-blue bee [costa_rica_la_selva_0174]
(Costa Rica)
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Blue, yellow, and black butterfly
(Colombia)
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Green grasshopper with gray-black legs and a yellow stripe down its back
(Peru)
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Platynopus melanoleueus, an insect used for integrated pest management of oil palm
(Malaysia)
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Red grasshawk dragonfly [west-papua_6089]
(Indonesia)
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Golden fly
(Indonesia)
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Orange bug on a flower
(China)
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Blue damselfly [costa_rica_la_selva_1197]
(Costa Rica)
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Phoebis philea and Anteos menippe butterflies in large group feeding on minerals in mud [manu-Manu_1022_1656]
(Peru)
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Dark brown centipede
(Peru)
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Orange knee tarantula (Bracypelma smithi)
(0)
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Red mite with yellow spots
(Australia)
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Light green colored cricket
(Colombia)
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Yellow leaf-shaped katydid
(Costa Rica)
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Stick insect
(Peru)
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Black pill millipede
(Malaysia)
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Red and black Leaf-footed Bugs (family Coreidae) hatching out their eggs
(Costa Rica)
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0
(Malaysia)
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Blue leafhopper [costa_rica_la_selva_0407]
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly with eye-spots
(Suriname)
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Green, white, and orange planthopper
(China)
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Frigatebirds in flight
(Ecuador)
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Red grasshawk dragonfly [kalimantan_9026]
(Indonesia)
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Fulgoridae family bug
(Colombia)
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Possibly a Heliconius butterfly (species unknown)
(Peru)
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Pill millipede (Glomeris connexa) -- borneo_3587
(Malaysia)
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White planthopper with orange eyes
(China)
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Chinese ant
(China)
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Green katydid
(Colombia)
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Scorpion eating a katydid
(Colombia)
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Violet, blue, and brown butterfly
(Suriname)
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Spider
(Peru)
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Butterfly
(Indonesia)
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Black; gray; white and red spider
(Peru)
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Green walking stick
(Indonesia)
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Caterpillar with an orange head and yellow-white and black bands
(Colombia)
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Red and black caterpillar
(China)
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Butterfly [brazil_155103]
(Brazil)
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Clear-winged Cithaerias pireta butterfly
(Peru)
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Orb spider
(Vietnam)
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Mossy stick insect [madagascar_perinet_0310]
(Madagascar)
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Blue dragonfly -- borneo_3099
(Malaysia)
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Leaf katydid
(Peru)
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Red damselfly
(China)
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Army ant column
(Costa Rica)
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Black, white, orange, and yellow moth
(Indonesia)
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Cicada shell
(Costa Rica)
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Walking stick insects mating
(Peru)
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Green, black, and yellow grasshopper
(Indonesia)
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Neon pink planthopper
(Peru)
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Zebra longwing (Heliconius charithonia vazquezae)
(0)
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Shield bug
(Indonesia)
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Fly in China
(China)
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Magenta leaf-hopper [madagascar_5007]
(Madagascar)
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Soldier Beetle, family Cantharidae
(Costa Rica)
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Purple, yellow, and brown planthopper [kalbar_0669]
(Indonesia)
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Stink bug
(China)
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White butterfly
(Peru)
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Heliconius hecale butterfly
(0)
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Multicolored grasshopper -- borneo_6135
(Malaysia)
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Colorful spider on a yellow egg sac
(Costa Rica)
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Nest of colony spiders (family: Araneidae)
(Peru)
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White moth
(Panama)
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Dragonfly [costa_rica_osa_0216]
(Costa Rica)
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Frigatebird in the Galapagos
(Ecuador)
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Reddish spider -- borneo_4079
(Malaysia)
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Katydid
(China)
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Giant hissing cockroach pollinating a purple flower
(Madagascar)
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Brown butterfly on the forest floor
(Colombia)
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Planthopper
(Costa Rica)
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Green, white, and orange planthopper
(China)
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Dark brown bug with bright orange spots
(Colombia)
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Ants fighting
(Indonesia)
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Multi-colored grasshopper with orrange eyes
(Madagascar)
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Black wasp on canopy platform
(Peru)
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Green mantis
(China)
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Stick insect in the New Guinea rainforest
(Indonesia)
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Red Malay harlequin butterfly [sabah_tawau_0342]
(Malaysia)
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Bug [costa_rica_siquirres_0804]
(Costa Rica)
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Bug [costa_rica_siquirres_0772]
(Costa Rica)
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Stick insect on the bathroom floor in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Arachides toras caterpillar [pan01-0857]
(Panama)
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Green and red insect [kalbar_1750]
(Indonesia)
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Yellow and black cricket
(Indonesia)
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Colorful moth in Sumatra [riau_5765]
(Indonesia)
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Red and black katydid
(Vietnam)
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Grasshopper
(China)
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Black, orange, and light blue butterfly, possibly Ithomia pellucida or the "Blue transparent"
(Colombia)
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Walking stick insect
(Vietnam)
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Striped katydid [kalsel_0021]
(Indonesia)
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Brown and yellow insect with a false eye spot
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly [madagascar_3417]
(Madagascar)
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Butterfly
(0)
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Orange and black fly
(Colombia)
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Wasp
(Costa Rica)
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Black, blue, and yellow butterfly
(Colombia)
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Fist-sized black, lime green, turquoise, and red cicada in Sumatra
(Indonesia)
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Damselfly [costa_rica_la_selva_0590]
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly
(Peru)
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Forest green centipede with yellow legs and dark red antenna - Parotostigmus rex (Peruvian yellow leg centipede)
(Colombia)
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Fresh fish at the Puerto Ayora fish market
(Ecuador)
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Mating butterflies
(Peru)
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Jewel beetle -- sabah_2719
(Malaysia)
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Orange caterpillars
(Indonesia)
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Dark green beetle with red spots
(Belize)
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Colorful grasshopper
(Colombia)
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Orange and yellow insect with black polkadots
(Vietnam)
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Giant Milkweek Locust [madagascar_5790]
(Madagascar)
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Green Katydid
(Costa Rica)
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Ants on a red-orange flower bud
(Colombia)
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Butterfly
(Peru)
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Shield bug
(Peru)
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Mating pair of beetles with black bodies and orange spots
(Malaysia)
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Moth
(Peru)
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Giant damselfly
(China)
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Pill millipede in Sumatra
(Indonesia)
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Green mantid [madagascar_masoala_0683]
(Madagascar)
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Bug [costa_rica_siquirres_1049]
(Costa Rica)
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Heliconius butterly
(Belize)
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Close up of a cicada [kalbar_1837]
(Indonesia)
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Adelpha iphiclus butterfly on pebbles
(Peru)
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Large white and yellow fury caterpillarthat resembles a shitzu
(Peru)
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Crab spider
(Malaysia)
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Eristaline hover-fly (Eristalinus quinquelineatus), not a tse-tse fly
(Kenya)
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Small Postman Butterfly, Heliconius erato (Black, red, and yellow butterfly)
(Costa Rica)
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Bright red dragonfly
(Malaysia)
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Katydid
(Indonesia)
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Black bee
(Malaysia)
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Cicada
(United States)
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Blue morpho (Morpho menelaus) caterpillar
(Panama)
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Spiny black, white, and orange caterpillar
(Costa Rica)
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Erotylidae Beetle with black body; white and black back; and turquoise legs
(Peru)
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Green skimmer (family Libellulidae, probably genus Erythemis) with alternating green and black abdominal segments - or Great Pondhawk dragonfly
(Colombia)
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Female rhinoceros beetle
(Indonesia)
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