rainforest insects

Transparent-winged butterfly with orange, black, and white markings
(Colombia)

Mosiac butterfly (Colobura dirce) feeding on fruit
(Panama)

Bug [costa_rica_siquirres_0068]
(Costa Rica)

Giant damselfly
(Suriname)

White furry caterpillar with yellow head and two orange spots at base of head
(Peru)

Group of Male Perrhybris pamela butterflies feeding on minerals in clay along the Rio Tambopata
(Peru)

Blue morpho butterfly [costa_rica_la_selva_0350]
(Costa Rica)

Small red beetle
(Peru)

Orange Net-winged Beetle (family Lycidae) with purple antenna
(Costa Rica)

Moth [madagascar_masoala_0085]
(Madagascar)

Greenish-brown katydid
(Peru)

Unknown moth
(Costa Rica)

Owl butterfly (Caligo idomeneus) [tambopata-Tambopata_1028_4670]
(Peru)

Stick insect [costa_rica_siquirres_0075]
(Costa Rica)

White insect with light orange spots, family Fulgoridae
(Colombia)

Butterfly [costa_rica_siquirres_0798]
(Costa Rica)

Moth [costa_rica_siquirres_1082]
(Costa Rica)

Orange butterfly
(Panama)

Spider hanging from web
(Peru)

Dragonfly [madagascar_masoala_0294]
(Madagascar)

Brown grasshopper with white marking
(Peru)

White insect with black spots and an orange head
(Colombia)

Brown walking stick
(Colombia)

Green mantid [madagascar_masoala_0905]
(Madagascar)

Unknown butterfly with black and light blue outer wings
(Peru)

Katydid [costa_rica_siquirres_0312]
(Costa Rica)

Glowing Elateridae click beetle
(Peru)

Long-nosed black Weevil (family Curculionidae) with orange markings on its back [costa_rica_4555]
(Costa Rica)

Cricket [costa_rica_siquirres_0548]
(Costa Rica)

Butterfly [costa_rica_siquirres_0757]
(Costa Rica)

Green katydid [madagascar_perinet_0344]
(Madagascar)

Close up headshot of a green katydid in Panama
(Panama)

Ants in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)

Beige grasshopper
(Peru)

Insect [costa_rica_la_selva_1498]
(Costa Rica)

Small green; gold; and brown scorpion
(Peru)

Yellow and red spider in web
(Peru)

Rainbow insect
(Peru)

Katydid
(Peru)

Brown leaf katydid
(Colombia)

Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_0967a]
(Suriname)

Blue leafhopper [costa_rica_la_selva_0409]
(Costa Rica)

Close-up on a leaf grasshopper
(Colombia)

Blue morpho butterfly [costa_rica_la_selva_0356]
(Costa Rica)

Shield bug [madagascar_masoala_0508]
(Madagascar)

Camouflaged moth in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)

Insect [costa_rica_la_selva_1723]
(Costa Rica)

Red insect with black legs
(Panama)

Brown Xyleus sp. (possiby X. discoideus) grasshopper [br_co-0232]
(Colombia)

Shield bug
(Peru)

Multicolored grasshopper
(Colombia)

Round black fury caterpillar
(Peru)

Black Leaf-footed Bug, family Coreidae (unknown)
(Peru)

Light orange caterpillar
(Colombia)

Io Moth (Automeris io) caterpillar
(Costa Rica)

Beetle
(Peru)

Leafhopper
(Peru)

Bright green caterpillar displaying its toxic spines in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)

Bess beetle in the Passalidae family in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)

Black and orange beetle
(Colombia)

Insect [madagascar_masoala_0771]
(Madagascar)

Multi-colored grasshoppers mating
(Peru)

Mossy stick insect [madagascar_perinet_0334]
(Madagascar)

Blue morpho butterfly [costa_rica_la_selva_0343]
(Costa Rica)

Mass of caterpillars
(Peru)

Katydid [madagascar_masoala_0920]
(Madagascar)

Bee [costa_rica_siquirres_0640]
(Costa Rica)

Stick insect [costa_rica_siquirres_1037]
(Costa Rica)

Giant red-eyed green katydid
(Costa Rica)

Light green grasshopper with yellow and maroon striped legs
(Peru)

Red and black insect
(Peru)

Moth on the underside of a leaf caught by the sun [costa-rica_0966]
(Costa Rica)

Large grasshopper in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)

Orange and black Assassin Bug, family Reduviidae
(Colombia)

Wasp
(Madagascar)

Light green grasshopper with yellow and maroon striped legs
(Peru)

Tail-less whip scorpion (Amblypygid sp)
(Peru)

Meneria Metalmark (Amarynthis meneria) [manu_0662]
(Peru)

Transparent butterfly (Pseudohaeterea hypaesia) in Colombia. This
(Colombia)

Tortoise beetle
(Costa Rica)

Meneria Metalmark (Amarynthis meneria)
(Peru)

Bug [costa_rica_siquirres_1070]
(Costa Rica)

Biblis hyperia butterfly; brown to black with red on its wings
(Peru)

Bee [costa_rica_siquirres_0628]
(Costa Rica)

Brown grasshopper
(Colombia)

Green grasshopper with yellow and black bands; and red; yellow; orange; and black striped legs
(Peru)

Strange moth
(Costa Rica)

Owl butterfly
(Peru)

Shield bug [madagascar_masoala_0520]
(Madagascar)

Large black Bess Beetle, Betsy Beetle, Patent Leather Beetle, (family Passalidae)
(Peru)

Praying mantis [cr_4008]
(Costa Rica)

Translucent green katydid
(Costa Rica)

Grasshopper eating a leaf
(Colombia)

Blue butterfly (Satyr species)
(Peru)

Green cicada
(Costa Rica)

Green, brown, and black Pentatomidae Stink Bug
(Peru)

Weevil [costa_rica_siquirres_0760]
(Costa Rica)

Walking stick with green and brown segments
(Costa Rica)

Multi-colored butterfly on a beach (unknown species)
(Peru)

Orange planthopper [madagascar_maroantsetra_0138]
(Madagascar)

Black Tortoise beetle with yellow polkadots [madagascar_masoala_0659]
(Madagascar)

Green grasshopper eating a banana leaf
(Colombia)

Green spiny caterpillar
(Colombia)

Amarynthis meneria butterfly on leaf
(Peru)

Brown katydid
(Peru)

Glasshopper [costa_rica_siquirres_0681]
(Costa Rica)

Possibly a morpho butterfly (species unknown)
(Peru)

Rainbow grasshopper [co05-0798]
(Colombia)

Ferocious looking insect in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)

Camouflaged insect
(Peru)

Blue morpho on a wooden deck
(Colombia)

Skipper Butterfly of the Astraptes fulgerator complex in Costa Rica
(Costa Rica)

Unknown butterfly with orange; brown; and white markings on outer part of the wing
(Peru)

Green grasshopper
(Peru)

Green mantid [madagascar_masoala_0902]
(Madagascar)

Insects
(Panama)

Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_0998a]
(Suriname)

Ants feeding on a fallen cicada
(Costa Rica)

Moth [costa_rica_la_selva_1215]
(Costa Rica)

Katydid [madagascar_masoala_0917]
(Madagascar)

Closeup on the jaws of a soldier army ant
(Costa Rica)

Katydid [costa_rica_siquirres_0303]
(Costa Rica)

Butterflies feeding on a flower
(Peru)

Butterfly [costa_rica_siquirres_0866]
(Costa Rica)

Arachides toras caterpillar
(Panama)

Butterfly with pink and transparent wings in Costa Rica (Greta oto)
(Costa Rica)

Yellow and black Leaf-footed Bug, family Coreidae on screen (unknown species)
(Peru)

Red beetle
(Suriname)

Green; blue; yellow; red; and black grasshopper
(Peru)

Striped leafhopper (green, yellow, blue and black)
(Peru)

Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_1023]
(Suriname)

Colorful; but known grasshopper-like insect
(Peru)

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)

Ferocious looking insect in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)

Ants in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)

Mossy stick insect [madagascar_perinet_0320]
(Madagascar)

Walking stick insect
(Costa Rica)

Orange, yellow, and black butterfly
(Suriname)

Red and blue dragonfly
(Costa Rica)

Black honeybee
(Costa Rica)

Spiny caterpillar
(Costa Rica)

Moth [costa_rica_la_selva_1705]
(Costa Rica)

Yellow-green insect on the forest floor
(Costa Rica)

Mantid [madagascar_maroantsetra_0074]
(Madagascar)

Black and yellow centipede
(Peru)

Turquoise, blue, and yellow weevil [costa_rica_osa_0104]
(Costa Rica)

Green stick insect
(Costa Rica)

Butterfly
(Suriname)

Butterfly
(Peru)

Mossy stick insect [madagascar_perinet_0329]
(Madagascar)

Butterfly [costa_rica_la_selva_0799]
(Costa Rica)

Green-blue bee [costa_rica_la_selva_0174]
(Costa Rica)

Green grasshopper with gray-black legs and a yellow stripe down its back
(Peru)

Blue damselfly [costa_rica_la_selva_1197]
(Costa Rica)

Phoebis philea and Anteos menippe butterflies in large group feeding on minerals in mud [manu-Manu_1022_1656]
(Peru)

Dark brown centipede
(Peru)

Light green colored cricket
(Colombia)

Yellow leaf-shaped katydid
(Costa Rica)

Blue leafhopper [costa_rica_la_selva_0407]
(Costa Rica)

Butterfly with eye-spots
(Suriname)

Possibly a Heliconius butterfly (species unknown)
(Peru)

Green katydid
(Colombia)

Violet, blue, and brown butterfly
(Suriname)

Black; gray; white and red spider
(Peru)

Caterpillar with an orange head and yellow-white and black bands
(Colombia)

Clear-winged Cithaerias pireta butterfly
(Peru)

Mossy stick insect [madagascar_perinet_0310]
(Madagascar)

Army ant column
(Costa Rica)

Cicada shell
(Costa Rica)

Walking stick insects mating
(Peru)

White butterfly
(Peru)

Nest of colony spiders (family: Araneidae)
(Peru)

White moth
(Panama)

Dragonfly [costa_rica_osa_0216]
(Costa Rica)

Brown butterfly on the forest floor
(Colombia)

Planthopper
(Costa Rica)

Black wasp on canopy platform
(Peru)

Bug [costa_rica_siquirres_0804]
(Costa Rica)

Bug [costa_rica_siquirres_0772]
(Costa Rica)

Stick insect on the bathroom floor in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)

Arachides toras caterpillar [pan01-0857]
(Panama)

Black, orange, and light blue butterfly, possibly Ithomia pellucida or the "Blue transparent"
(Colombia)

Brown and yellow insect with a false eye spot
(Costa Rica)

Wasp
(Costa Rica)

Black, blue, and yellow butterfly
(Colombia)

Damselfly [costa_rica_la_selva_0590]
(Costa Rica)

Colorful grasshopper
(Colombia)

Green Katydid
(Costa Rica)

Ants on a red-orange flower bud
(Colombia)

Green mantid [madagascar_masoala_0683]
(Madagascar)

Bug [costa_rica_siquirres_1049]
(Costa Rica)

Adelpha iphiclus butterfly on pebbles
(Peru)

Large white and yellow fury caterpillarthat resembles a shitzu
(Peru)

Small Postman Butterfly, Heliconius erato (Black, red, and yellow butterfly)
(Costa Rica)

Blue morpho (Morpho menelaus) caterpillar
(Panama)

Spiny black, white, and orange caterpillar
(Costa Rica)

Erotylidae Beetle with black body; white and black back; and turquoise legs
(Peru)

Green skimmer (family Libellulidae, probably genus Erythemis) with alternating green and black abdominal segments - or Great Pondhawk dragonfly
(Colombia)

A bug's life: insect in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)

Unknown butterfly with light and dark brown patterned wings and orange on the upper wing [manu-Manu_1023_2426]
(Peru)

Insect [madagascar_masoala_0536]
(Madagascar)

Rust-colored moth with yellow and red markings and a black fringe
(Suriname)

Pleasing Fungus Beetle, family Erotylidae (Zig zag pattern)
(Colombia)

Yellow-legged wasp
(Colombia)

Butterfly
(Peru)

Glasswinged butterfly (Greta oto) [costa_rica_siquirres_0142]
(Costa Rica)

Green grasshopper with an orange abdomen [costa_rica_4746a]
(Costa Rica)

Silver-gray millipede in eating leaf Amazon rainforest
(Peru)

Stick insect [costa_rica_siquirres_0309]
(Costa Rica)

Blue morpho with its wings closed
(Costa Rica)

Insect [costa_rica_la_selva_0302]
(Costa Rica)

Red and black caterpillar
(Peru)

Panacea prola butterfly; wings open
(Peru)

Green shield bug
(Madagascar)

Bee [costa_rica_siquirres_0636]
(Costa Rica)

Butterfly with clear wings and false eye-spots (likely Haetera macleannania)
(Colombia)

Stick insect
(Peru)

Arawacus butterfly
(Peru)

Black and yellow longhorn beetle
(Costa Rica)

Glasshopper [costa_rica_siquirres_1039]
(Costa Rica)

Malachite (Siproeta stelenes)
(Costa Rica)

Katydid [costa_rica_siquirres_0825]
(Costa Rica)

Hyla tree frog in Peru
(Peru)

Praying mantis [costa_rica_osa_0744]
(Costa Rica)

Shield bug
(Costa Rica)

Insect nymph
(Peru)

Giraffe weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa) [madagascar_perinet_0319]
(Madagascar)

Colorful grasshopper
(Costa Rica)

Click beetle with glowing spots (Elateridae)
(Peru)

Weevil [costa_rica_siquirres_0684]
(Costa Rica)

Beetle in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)

Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_0943]
(Suriname)

Longhorn beetle
(Costa Rica)

Butterfly on hand
(Peru)

Brown moth with light yellow markings on its wings
(Colombia)

Bee burrowing in the sand
(Peru)

Orange and black caterpillar
(Peru)

Black caterpillar with off-white stripes and yellow spines
(Panama)

Polybothris jewel beetle
(Madagascar)

Heraclides thoas butterfly on muddy bank
(Peru)

Katydid [costa_rica_siquirres_0877]
(Costa Rica)

Dark gray and red butterfly (Pierella helvetia incanescens) [cr_3730]
(Costa Rica)

Ants on the forest floor [suriname_8778a]
(Suriname)

Meneria Metalmark (Amarynthis meneria)
(Peru)

Rust-colored moth with yellow and red markings and a black fringe [suriname_1254]
(Suriname)

Io Moth (Automeris io) caterpillar [costa_rica_la_selva_0831]
(Costa Rica)

Masoala peninsula beetle
(Madagascar)

Gray grasshopper (Abracris flavolineata)
(Colombia)

Green insect in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)

Moth [costa-rica-d_0365]
(Costa Rica)

Green katydid on a white wall
(Panama)

Giant moth
(Madagascar)

Caligo sp or Owl Butterfly with its wings closed [cr_4127]
(Costa Rica)

Brownish-red Long-horned Beetle (family Cerambycidae, subfamily Prioninae) [costa_rica_5654]
(Costa Rica)

Pink translucent butterfly in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)

Orange and dark green beetle [suriname_2193]
(Suriname)

Gigantic ant on forest floor
(Peru)

Transparent moth [cr_3685]
(Costa Rica)

White insect
(Suriname)

Assassin bug [costa_rica_la_selva_1474]
(Costa Rica)

Walking stick insect [costa_rica_5417]
(Costa Rica)

Orange and dark green beetle
(Suriname)

Black butterfly (Eumaeus godartii) with a white fringe, an orange patch, and turquoise spots [costa_rica_4601]
(Costa Rica)

Bright green leafhopper with polkadots
(Costa Rica)

Brown grasshopper in an orange flower
(Costa Rica)

Stick insects [costa_rica_la_selva_0792]
(Costa Rica)

Moth or butterfly at night in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)

Mossy stick insect [madagascar_perinet_0331]
(Madagascar)

Blue butterfly (Satyr species)
(Peru)

Blue leafhopper [costa_rica_la_selva_1424]
(Costa Rica)

Blue-eyed butterfly [suriname_1654]
(Suriname)

Green grasshopper with yellow markings and a black head
(Colombia)

Io Moth (Automeris io) caterpillar [costa_rica_la_selva_0829]
(Costa Rica)

Blue-spotted butterfly or moth in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)

Stingless bee nest
(Peru)

Bright green katydid [co05-0859]
(Colombia)

Colorful butterfly feeding on a yellow flower
(Colombia)

Colorful grasshopper
(Peru)

Green-blue bee [costa_rica_la_selva_0177]
(Costa Rica)

Light orange bristly caterpillar in Parque Tayrona
(Colombia)

Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_0987]
(Suriname)

Striped leafhopper (green, yellow, blue and black) [manu_0684]
(Peru)

Orange beetle
(Suriname)

Stick insect at night in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)

Green-blue bee [costa_rica_la_selva_0170]
(Costa Rica)

Blue and black insect
(Suriname)

Turquoise insect with orange legs [suriname_2250a]
(Suriname)

Large centipede
(Guyana)

Madagascar moth with an orange mask-marking on its back [madagascar_masoala_1018]
(Madagascar)

Giraffe weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa) [madagascar_perinet_0328]
(Madagascar)

Turquoise and orange leafhopper [manu_0697]
(Peru)

Assassin bug [costa_rica_la_selva_1480]
(Costa Rica)

Glowing raspberry-colored dragonfly
(Panama)

Insect [madagascar_masoala_0212]
(Madagascar)

Sweat bee nest
(Peru)

Camouflaged insect [manu_0576]
(Peru)

Red clear-wing butterfly (Nymphalidae: Acraea lia)
(Madagascar)

Army ant soldiers
(Costa Rica)

Nocturnal stick insect
(Madagascar)

Leaf litter cockroach
(Costa Rica)

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