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Last update: 2017-07-27
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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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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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Pink shield bug
(Cambodia)
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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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Cicada between fingers
(Peru)
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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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Mossy stick insect [madagascar_perinet_0329]
(Madagascar)
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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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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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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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White planthopper with orange eyes
(China)
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Chinese ant
(China)
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Green katydid
(Colombia)
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Tan and orange butterfly feeding on bird droppings
(Uganda)
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Violet, blue, and brown butterfly
(Suriname)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A bug's life: insect in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Grasshoppers -- sabah_3314
(Malaysia)
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Moth
(Peru)
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Unknown butterfly with light and dark brown patterned wings and orange on the upper wing [manu-Manu_1023_2426]
(Peru)
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Insect [madagascar_masoala_0536]
(Madagascar)
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Black and orange banded insect
(Suriname)
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Spider eating a bee
(0)
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Bright orange-pink planthopper [kalsel_0047]
(Indonesia)
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Katydid resembling a leaf [kalbar_1972]
(Indonesia)
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Grasshopper
(Vietnam)
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Cicada in the Borneo rainforest [kalbar_0898]
(Indonesia)
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Red, green, and turquoise damselfly
(Indonesia)
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Latern bug (Fulgora lampestris) [sabah_kinabatangan_0373]
(Malaysia)
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Rust-colored moth with yellow and red markings and a black fringe
(Suriname)
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Pleasing Fungus Beetle, family Erotylidae (Zig zag pattern)
(Colombia)
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Yellow-legged wasp
(Colombia)
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Small cicada
(Panama)
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Tiger beetle [riau_5512]
(Indonesia)
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Red grasshawk dragonfly
(Indonesia)
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Weevil
(Indonesia)
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Butterfly
(Peru)
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Glasswinged butterfly (Greta oto) [costa_rica_siquirres_0142]
(Costa Rica)
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Katydid -- sabah_2681
(Malaysia)
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Butterfly [colombia_5041]
(Colombia)
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Green grasshopper with an orange abdomen [costa_rica_4746a]
(Costa Rica)
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Silver-gray millipede in eating leaf Amazon rainforest
(Peru)
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Chinese butterfly
(China)
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Stick insect [costa_rica_siquirres_0309]
(Costa Rica)
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Green praying mantis
(Indonesia)
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Blue morpho with its wings closed
(Costa Rica)
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Chinese ant
(China)
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Orange moth with black and yellow polkadots
(Indonesia)
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Beetle [brazil_154638]
(Brazil)
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Insect [costa_rica_la_selva_0302]
(Costa Rica)
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Red and black caterpillar
(Peru)
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Panacea prola butterfly; wings open
(Peru)
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Green shield bug
(Madagascar)
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Bee [costa_rica_siquirres_0636]
(Costa Rica)
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Electric blue and orange leafhoppers mating
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly with clear wings and false eye-spots (likely Haetera macleannania)
(Colombia)
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Stick insect
(Peru)
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Tiger beetle [riau_5520]
(Indonesia)
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Arawacus butterfly
(Peru)
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Black and yellow longhorn beetle
(Costa Rica)
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Black, yellow, and blue dragonfly
(Gabon)
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Glasshopper [costa_rica_siquirres_1039]
(Costa Rica)
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Brown grasshopper -- borneo_6333
(Malaysia)
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Black dragonfly eating an assassin bug
(Indonesia)
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Malachite (Siproeta stelenes)
(Costa Rica)
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Red-eyed fly
(Indonesia)
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Katydid [costa_rica_siquirres_0825]
(Costa Rica)
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Grasshoppers -- sabah_3268
(Malaysia)
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Hyla tree frog in Peru
(Peru)
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Praying mantis [costa_rica_osa_0744]
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly
(Peru)
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Shield bug
(Costa Rica)
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Strange flying insect
(Indonesia)
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Insect nymph
(Peru)
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Rainbow Bush Locust (Phymateus saxosus)
(Madagascar)
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Ants
(Indonesia)
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Giraffe weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa) [madagascar_perinet_0319]
(Madagascar)
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Colorful grasshopper
(Costa Rica)
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Click beetle with glowing spots (Elateridae)
(Peru)
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0
(Malaysia)
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Weevil [costa_rica_siquirres_0684]
(Costa Rica)
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White planthopper with orange eyes
(China)
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Cicada [brazil_154577]
(Brazil)
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Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_0943]
(Suriname)
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Stick insect
(Vietnam)
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Longhorn beetle
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly on hand
(Peru)
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Mating butterflies [aceh_0413]
(Indonesia)
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Brown moth with light yellow markings on its wings
(Colombia)
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Blue-eyed fly
(Indonesia)
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Glass Wing Butterfly (Cithaerias merolina)
(Peru)
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Bee burrowing in the sand
(Peru)
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Orange and black caterpillar
(Peru)
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Blue beetle with a red head
(Indonesia)
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Yellow and black butterfly
(Peru)
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Yellow, orange, and black damselfly
(Indonesia)
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Black caterpillar with off-white stripes and yellow spines
(Panama)
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Katydid camouflaged to resemble bird droppings on a fern [sumatra_1352]
(Indonesia)
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Cicada exoskeleton
(Indonesia)
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Yellow, black and green grasshopper
(China)
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Blue and orange net-winged beetle (Lycidae)
(Colombia)
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Grasshopper with a green body, blue antennae, turquoise hind legs, red front legs, and a black head
(Indonesia)
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Butterfly [colombia_5118]
(Colombia)
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Polybothris jewel beetle
(Madagascar)
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Heraclides thoas butterfly on muddy bank
(Peru)
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Ant in Namibia [namibia_2289]
(Namibia)
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White shield bug
(Malaysia)
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Shield bug
(China)
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Orange and black "Halloween" moth
(Madagascar)
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Stick insect
(Vietnam)
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Butterfly [madagascar_ankarafantsika_0221]
(Madagascar)
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Butterfly
(Vietnam)
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Red grasshawk butterfly [aceh_0525]
(Indonesia)
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Rhinoceros beetle
(Indonesia)
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Magenta dragonfly
(Indonesia)
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Katydid [costa_rica_siquirres_0877]
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly
(Malaysia)
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Katydid
(Vietnam)
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Damselfly
(Indonesia)
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Dark gray and red butterfly (Pierella helvetia incanescens) [cr_3730]
(Costa Rica)
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Pink, orange, yellow, violet katydid with spots and green eyes [west-papua_0173]
(Indonesia)
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Green stick insect [panama_0964]
(Panama)
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Ants on the forest floor [suriname_8778a]
(Suriname)
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Blue beetle [kalbar_1439]
(Indonesia)
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Rainforest ant
(Peru)
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Leaf-cutter ants
(Peru)
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Shield bug
(Vietnam)
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Meneria Metalmark (Amarynthis meneria)
(Peru)
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Butterfly
(Cambodia)
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Rust-colored moth with yellow and red markings and a black fringe [suriname_1254]
(Suriname)
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Io Moth (Automeris io) caterpillar [costa_rica_la_selva_0831]
(Costa Rica)
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Masoala peninsula beetle
(Madagascar)
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Blue orange and black damselfies
(China)
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Cithaerias pireta clear-winged butterfly [panama_0912]
(Panama)
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Assassin bug
(Vietnam)
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Butterfly [colombia_5752]
(Colombia)
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Gray grasshopper (Abracris flavolineata)
(Colombia)
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Green insect in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Moth [costa-rica-d_0365]
(Costa Rica)
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Green katydid on a white wall
(Panama)
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Multicolored katydid [west-papua_0242]
(Indonesia)
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Giant moth
(Madagascar)
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Insect [costa-rica_0917]
(Costa Rica)
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Stick insect
(Vietnam)
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Leopard Lacewing (Cethosia cyane)
(0)
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Chinese butterfly
(China)
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Caligo sp or Owl Butterfly with its wings closed [cr_4127]
(Costa Rica)
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Yellow and black leafhopper
(Colombia)
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Pink and purple Homopteran, probably a Flatid or a Fulgorid bug, with huge eyes; this is a nymph that has JUST molted
(Madagascar)
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Green caterpillar - Rhagastis lambertoni, Sphingidae family
(Madagascar)
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Red and green metallic beetle in Bali
(Indonesia)
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Brownish-red Long-horned Beetle (family Cerambycidae, subfamily Prioninae) [costa_rica_5654]
(Costa Rica)
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Clipper (Parthenos sylvia)
(0)
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Galapagos tortoise
(Ecuador)
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Forest beetle
(Belize)
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Blue and turquoise beetle from New Guinea
(Indonesia)
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Pink translucent butterfly in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Green mantis [madagascar_ankarafantsika_0218]
(Madagascar)
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