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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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