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Last update: 2017-07-27
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Transparent-winged butterfly with orange, black, and white markings
(Colombia)
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Mosiac butterfly (Colobura dirce) feeding on fruit
(Panama)
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Bug [costa_rica_siquirres_0068]
(Costa Rica)
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Giant damselfly
(Suriname)
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White furry caterpillar with yellow head and two orange spots at base of head
(Peru)
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Group of Male Perrhybris pamela butterflies feeding on minerals in clay along the Rio Tambopata
(Peru)
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Blue morpho butterfly [costa_rica_la_selva_0350]
(Costa Rica)
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Small red beetle
(Peru)
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Orange Net-winged Beetle (family Lycidae) with purple antenna
(Costa Rica)
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Moth [madagascar_masoala_0085]
(Madagascar)
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Greenish-brown katydid
(Peru)
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Unknown moth
(Costa Rica)
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Owl butterfly (Caligo idomeneus) [tambopata-Tambopata_1028_4670]
(Peru)
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Stick insect [costa_rica_siquirres_0075]
(Costa Rica)
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White insect with light orange spots, family Fulgoridae
(Colombia)
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Butterfly [costa_rica_siquirres_0798]
(Costa Rica)
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Moth [costa_rica_siquirres_1082]
(Costa Rica)
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Orange butterfly
(Panama)
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Spider hanging from web
(Peru)
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Dragonfly [madagascar_masoala_0294]
(Madagascar)
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Brown grasshopper with white marking
(Peru)
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White insect with black spots and an orange head
(Colombia)
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Brown walking stick
(Colombia)
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Green mantid [madagascar_masoala_0905]
(Madagascar)
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Unknown butterfly with black and light blue outer wings
(Peru)
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Katydid [costa_rica_siquirres_0312]
(Costa Rica)
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Glowing Elateridae click beetle
(Peru)
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Long-nosed black Weevil (family Curculionidae) with orange markings on its back [costa_rica_4555]
(Costa Rica)
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Cricket [costa_rica_siquirres_0548]
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly [costa_rica_siquirres_0757]
(Costa Rica)
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Green katydid [madagascar_perinet_0344]
(Madagascar)
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Close up headshot of a green katydid in Panama
(Panama)
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Ants in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Beige grasshopper
(Peru)
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Insect [costa_rica_la_selva_1498]
(Costa Rica)
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Small green; gold; and brown scorpion
(Peru)
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Yellow and red spider in web
(Peru)
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Rainbow insect
(Peru)
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Katydid
(Peru)
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Brown leaf katydid
(Colombia)
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Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_0967a]
(Suriname)
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Blue leafhopper [costa_rica_la_selva_0409]
(Costa Rica)
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Close-up on a leaf grasshopper
(Colombia)
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Blue morpho butterfly [costa_rica_la_selva_0356]
(Costa Rica)
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Shield bug [madagascar_masoala_0508]
(Madagascar)
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Camouflaged moth in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Insect [costa_rica_la_selva_1723]
(Costa Rica)
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Red insect with black legs
(Panama)
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Brown Xyleus sp. (possiby X. discoideus) grasshopper [br_co-0232]
(Colombia)
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Shield bug
(Peru)
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Multicolored grasshopper
(Colombia)
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Round black fury caterpillar
(Peru)
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Black Leaf-footed Bug, family Coreidae (unknown)
(Peru)
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Light orange caterpillar
(Colombia)
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Io Moth (Automeris io) caterpillar
(Costa Rica)
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Beetle
(Peru)
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Leafhopper
(Peru)
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Bright green caterpillar displaying its toxic spines in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Bess beetle in the Passalidae family in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Black and orange beetle
(Colombia)
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Insect [madagascar_masoala_0771]
(Madagascar)
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Multi-colored grasshoppers mating
(Peru)
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Mossy stick insect [madagascar_perinet_0334]
(Madagascar)
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Blue morpho butterfly [costa_rica_la_selva_0343]
(Costa Rica)
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Mass of caterpillars
(Peru)
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Katydid [madagascar_masoala_0920]
(Madagascar)
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Bee [costa_rica_siquirres_0640]
(Costa Rica)
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Stick insect [costa_rica_siquirres_1037]
(Costa Rica)
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Giant red-eyed green katydid
(Costa Rica)
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Light green grasshopper with yellow and maroon striped legs
(Peru)
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Red and black insect
(Peru)
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Moth on the underside of a leaf caught by the sun [costa-rica_0966]
(Costa Rica)
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Large grasshopper in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Orange and black Assassin Bug, family Reduviidae
(Colombia)
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Wasp
(Madagascar)
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Light green grasshopper with yellow and maroon striped legs
(Peru)
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Tail-less whip scorpion (Amblypygid sp)
(Peru)
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Meneria Metalmark (Amarynthis meneria) [manu_0662]
(Peru)
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Transparent butterfly (Pseudohaeterea hypaesia) in Colombia. This
(Colombia)
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Tortoise beetle
(Costa Rica)
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Meneria Metalmark (Amarynthis meneria)
(Peru)
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Bug [costa_rica_siquirres_1070]
(Costa Rica)
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Biblis hyperia butterfly; brown to black with red on its wings
(Peru)
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Bee [costa_rica_siquirres_0628]
(Costa Rica)
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Brown grasshopper
(Colombia)
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Green grasshopper with yellow and black bands; and red; yellow; orange; and black striped legs
(Peru)
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Strange moth
(Costa Rica)
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Owl butterfly
(Peru)
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Shield bug [madagascar_masoala_0520]
(Madagascar)
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Large black Bess Beetle, Betsy Beetle, Patent Leather Beetle, (family Passalidae)
(Peru)
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Praying mantis [cr_4008]
(Costa Rica)
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Translucent green katydid
(Costa Rica)
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Grasshopper eating a leaf
(Colombia)
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Blue butterfly (Satyr species)
(Peru)
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Green cicada
(Costa Rica)
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Green, brown, and black Pentatomidae Stink Bug
(Peru)
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Weevil [costa_rica_siquirres_0760]
(Costa Rica)
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Walking stick with green and brown segments
(Costa Rica)
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Multi-colored butterfly on a beach (unknown species)
(Peru)
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Orange planthopper [madagascar_maroantsetra_0138]
(Madagascar)
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Black Tortoise beetle with yellow polkadots [madagascar_masoala_0659]
(Madagascar)
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Green grasshopper eating a banana leaf
(Colombia)
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Green spiny caterpillar
(Colombia)
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Amarynthis meneria butterfly on leaf
(Peru)
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Brown katydid
(Peru)
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Glasshopper [costa_rica_siquirres_0681]
(Costa Rica)
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Possibly a morpho butterfly (species unknown)
(Peru)
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Rainbow grasshopper [co05-0798]
(Colombia)
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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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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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Green mantid [madagascar_masoala_0902]
(Madagascar)
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Insects
(Panama)
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Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_0998a]
(Suriname)
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Ants feeding on a fallen cicada
(Costa Rica)
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Moth [costa_rica_la_selva_1215]
(Costa Rica)
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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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Katydid [costa_rica_siquirres_0303]
(Costa Rica)
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Butterflies feeding on a flower
(Peru)
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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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Yellow and black Leaf-footed Bug, family Coreidae on screen (unknown species)
(Peru)
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Red beetle
(Suriname)
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Green; blue; yellow; red; and black grasshopper
(Peru)
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Striped leafhopper (green, yellow, blue and black)
(Peru)
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Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_1023]
(Suriname)
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Colorful; but known grasshopper-like insect
(Peru)
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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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Ferocious looking insect in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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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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Orange, yellow, and black butterfly
(Suriname)
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Red and blue dragonfly
(Costa Rica)
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Black honeybee
(Costa Rica)
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Spiny caterpillar
(Costa Rica)
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Moth [costa_rica_la_selva_1705]
(Costa Rica)
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Yellow-green insect on the forest floor
(Costa Rica)
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Mantid [madagascar_maroantsetra_0074]
(Madagascar)
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Black and yellow centipede
(Peru)
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Turquoise, blue, and yellow weevil [costa_rica_osa_0104]
(Costa Rica)
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Green stick insect
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly
(Suriname)
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Butterfly
(Peru)
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Mossy stick insect [madagascar_perinet_0329]
(Madagascar)
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Butterfly [costa_rica_la_selva_0799]
(Costa Rica)
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Green-blue bee [costa_rica_la_selva_0174]
(Costa Rica)
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Green grasshopper with gray-black legs and a yellow stripe down its back
(Peru)
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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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Blue leafhopper [costa_rica_la_selva_0407]
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly with eye-spots
(Suriname)
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Possibly a Heliconius butterfly (species unknown)
(Peru)
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Green katydid
(Colombia)
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Violet, blue, and brown butterfly
(Suriname)
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Black; gray; white and red spider
(Peru)
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Caterpillar with an orange head and yellow-white and black bands
(Colombia)
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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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Army ant column
(Costa Rica)
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Cicada shell
(Costa Rica)
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Walking stick insects mating
(Peru)
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White butterfly
(Peru)
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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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Brown butterfly on the forest floor
(Colombia)
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Planthopper
(Costa Rica)
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Black wasp on canopy platform
(Peru)
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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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Black, orange, and light blue butterfly, possibly Ithomia pellucida or the "Blue transparent"
(Colombia)
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Brown and yellow insect with a false eye spot
(Costa Rica)
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Wasp
(Costa Rica)
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Black, blue, and yellow butterfly
(Colombia)
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Damselfly [costa_rica_la_selva_0590]
(Costa Rica)
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Colorful grasshopper
(Colombia)
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Green Katydid
(Costa Rica)
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Ants on a red-orange flower bud
(Colombia)
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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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Adelpha iphiclus butterfly on pebbles
(Peru)
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Large white and yellow fury caterpillarthat resembles a shitzu
(Peru)
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Small Postman Butterfly, Heliconius erato (Black, red, and yellow butterfly)
(Costa Rica)
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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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A bug's life: insect in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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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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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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Butterfly
(Peru)
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Glasswinged butterfly (Greta oto) [costa_rica_siquirres_0142]
(Costa Rica)
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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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Stick insect [costa_rica_siquirres_0309]
(Costa Rica)
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Blue morpho with its wings closed
(Costa Rica)
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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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Butterfly with clear wings and false eye-spots (likely Haetera macleannania)
(Colombia)
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Stick insect
(Peru)
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Arawacus butterfly
(Peru)
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Black and yellow longhorn beetle
(Costa Rica)
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Glasshopper [costa_rica_siquirres_1039]
(Costa Rica)
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Malachite (Siproeta stelenes)
(Costa Rica)
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Katydid [costa_rica_siquirres_0825]
(Costa Rica)
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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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Shield bug
(Costa Rica)
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Insect nymph
(Peru)
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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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Weevil [costa_rica_siquirres_0684]
(Costa Rica)
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Beetle in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_0943]
(Suriname)
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Longhorn beetle
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly on hand
(Peru)
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Brown moth with light yellow markings on its wings
(Colombia)
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Bee burrowing in the sand
(Peru)
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Orange and black caterpillar
(Peru)
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Black caterpillar with off-white stripes and yellow spines
(Panama)
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Polybothris jewel beetle
(Madagascar)
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Heraclides thoas butterfly on muddy bank
(Peru)
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Katydid [costa_rica_siquirres_0877]
(Costa Rica)
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Dark gray and red butterfly (Pierella helvetia incanescens) [cr_3730]
(Costa Rica)
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Ants on the forest floor [suriname_8778a]
(Suriname)
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Meneria Metalmark (Amarynthis meneria)
(Peru)
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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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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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Giant moth
(Madagascar)
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Caligo sp or Owl Butterfly with its wings closed [cr_4127]
(Costa Rica)
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Brownish-red Long-horned Beetle (family Cerambycidae, subfamily Prioninae) [costa_rica_5654]
(Costa Rica)
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Pink translucent butterfly in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Orange and dark green beetle [suriname_2193]
(Suriname)
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Gigantic ant on forest floor
(Peru)
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Transparent moth [cr_3685]
(Costa Rica)
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White insect
(Suriname)
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Assassin bug [costa_rica_la_selva_1474]
(Costa Rica)
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Walking stick insect [costa_rica_5417]
(Costa Rica)
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Orange and dark green beetle
(Suriname)
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Black butterfly (Eumaeus godartii) with a white fringe, an orange patch, and turquoise spots [costa_rica_4601]
(Costa Rica)
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Bright green leafhopper with polkadots
(Costa Rica)
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Brown grasshopper in an orange flower
(Costa Rica)
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Stick insects [costa_rica_la_selva_0792]
(Costa Rica)
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Moth or butterfly at night in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Mossy stick insect [madagascar_perinet_0331]
(Madagascar)
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Blue butterfly (Satyr species)
(Peru)
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Blue leafhopper [costa_rica_la_selva_1424]
(Costa Rica)
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Blue-eyed butterfly [suriname_1654]
(Suriname)
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Green grasshopper with yellow markings and a black head
(Colombia)
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Io Moth (Automeris io) caterpillar [costa_rica_la_selva_0829]
(Costa Rica)
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Blue-spotted butterfly or moth in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Stingless bee nest
(Peru)
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Bright green katydid [co05-0859]
(Colombia)
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Colorful butterfly feeding on a yellow flower
(Colombia)
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Colorful grasshopper
(Peru)
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Green-blue bee [costa_rica_la_selva_0177]
(Costa Rica)
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Light orange bristly caterpillar in Parque Tayrona
(Colombia)
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Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_0987]
(Suriname)
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Striped leafhopper (green, yellow, blue and black) [manu_0684]
(Peru)
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Orange beetle
(Suriname)
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Stick insect at night in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Green-blue bee [costa_rica_la_selva_0170]
(Costa Rica)
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Blue and black insect
(Suriname)
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Turquoise insect with orange legs [suriname_2250a]
(Suriname)
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Large centipede
(Guyana)
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Madagascar moth with an orange mask-marking on its back [madagascar_masoala_1018]
(Madagascar)
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Giraffe weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa) [madagascar_perinet_0328]
(Madagascar)
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Turquoise and orange leafhopper [manu_0697]
(Peru)
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Assassin bug [costa_rica_la_selva_1480]
(Costa Rica)
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Glowing raspberry-colored dragonfly
(Panama)
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Insect [madagascar_masoala_0212]
(Madagascar)
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Sweat bee nest
(Peru)
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Camouflaged insect [manu_0576]
(Peru)
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Red clear-wing butterfly (Nymphalidae: Acraea lia)
(Madagascar)
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Army ant soldiers
(Costa Rica)
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Nocturnal stick insect
(Madagascar)
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Leaf litter cockroach
(Costa Rica)
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