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Last update: 2017-07-27
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Red millipede on log
(Madagascar)
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Guide Oscar handling fruit dislodged by feeding macaws
(Peru)
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Army ant soldiers [costa-rica-d_0408]
(Costa Rica)
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Brown millipede
(Costa Rica)
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Pair of rhinoceros beetles
(Peru)
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Black and orange butterfly
(Colombia)
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Light green katydid
(Colombia)
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Blue-eyed fly [madagascar_masoala_0596]
(Madagascar)
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Godart's Cycadian butterfly [costa_rica_4595]
(Costa Rica)
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Katydid [madagascar_maroantsetra_0062]
(Madagascar)
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Neon green caterpillar in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Yellow leaf-shaped katydid [costa_rica_4515]
(Costa Rica)
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Black wasp
(Suriname)
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Cicada [costa_rica_5666]
(Costa Rica)
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Ants
(Peru)
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Heliconius butterfly in Santuario Otún Quimbaya
(Colombia)
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Centipedes
(Guyana)
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Green grasshopper feeding on a leaf
(Colombia)
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Longhorn beetle [costa_rica_la_selva_0824]
(Costa Rica)
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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_5272]
(Costa Rica)
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Green moth with a black body [costa_rica_4707]
(Costa Rica)
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Blue morpho with wings closed
(Peru)
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Grasshopper [costa-rica-d_0397]
(Costa Rica)
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Bugs [madagascar_masoala_0231]
(Madagascar)
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Morpho Butterfly in Costa Rica
(Costa Rica)
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Polybothris jewel beetle [madagascar_perinet_0459]
(Madagascar)
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Moth [moth0130]
(Madagascar)
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Green grasshopper
(Suriname)
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Giant walking stick [suriname_0321a]
(Suriname)
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Blue leafhopper [costa_rica_la_selva_1429]
(Costa Rica)
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Longhorn Beetle (Cerambycidae)
(Madagascar)
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Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_0909]
(Suriname)
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Dung beetle
(Peru)
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Insect [costa_rica_la_selva_1500]
(Costa Rica)
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Stick insect [cr_4299]
(Costa Rica)
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Isabella's Tiger Heliconian (Eueides isabella)
(Costa Rica)
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Blue-eyed fly
(Madagascar)
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Dragonfly [costa-rica_0891]
(Costa Rica)
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Leaf-cutter ant nest
(Peru)
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Tarantula in the shaving cup
(Suriname)
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Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_0963a]
(Suriname)
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Weevil [costa_rica_la_selva_0785]
(Costa Rica)
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leafhopper nymph
(Peru)
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Ruby-Spotted Swallowtail (Papilio anchisiades)
(Costa Rica)
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Red, blue, and yellow (on the underside) butterfly in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Brown cricket
(Colombia)
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Green moth [costa-rica-d_0346]
(Costa Rica)
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Mating beetles [madagascar_perinet_0124]
(Madagascar)
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Blue planthopper [madagascar_masoala_0111]
(Madagascar)
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Black, red, and yellow insect [cr_3966]
(Costa Rica)
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Orange-pink and yellow leafhopper [manu_0530]
(Peru)
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Long-horned Beetle, family Cerambycidae
(Costa Rica)
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Green grasshopper [costa_rica_4759]
(Costa Rica)
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Butterflies mating [pan02-2049]
(Panama)
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Black Tiger Beetle, family Carabidae, subfamily Cicindelinae, with orange parasites
(Colombia)
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Caterpillar [suriname_0196]
(Suriname)
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Ant nest made of leaves
(Peru)
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Caterpillar
(Suriname)
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Red and black butterfly on a sandy river beach
(Colombia)
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Walking stick insect [costa_rica_5414]
(Costa Rica)
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Millipede in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Slate gray and red butterfly
(Costa Rica)
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Small cicada-like insect from the Fulgoridae family
(Costa Rica)
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Pair of sleeping dragonflies
(Costa Rica)
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Green and orange flat-footed bug
(Peru)
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Butterfly [costa_rica_la_selva_1487]
(Costa Rica)
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Katydid [madagascar_perinet_0135]
(Madagascar)
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Mossy stick insect
(Madagascar)
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Heliconid butterfly
(Costa Rica)
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Mating beetles
(Madagascar)
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Blue-eyed dragonfly
(Costa Rica)
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Green shield bug [madagascar_masoala_0481]
(Madagascar)
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Unknown grasshopper: black head, red antenna, yellow stripes, green legs, red haunches
(Colombia)
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Metallic blue beetle
(Suriname)
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Newly hatched caterpillars [pan02-2041]
(Panama)
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Longhorn Beetle in flight with guide Armand
(Madagascar)
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Mossy stick insect [madagascar_perinet_0324]
(Madagascar)
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Stick insect in Masoala NP
(Madagascar)
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Green katydid
(Suriname)
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Blue morpho with wings closed
(Colombia)
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Metallic green beetle [suriname_2119]
(Suriname)
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Black beetle with white spots and an orange thorax
(Suriname)
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Walking stick insect [madagascar_perinet_0125]
(Madagascar)
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Black skimmer (family Libellulidae) with red rearparts
(Colombia)
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Turquoise bug with orange legs
(Suriname)
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Katydid [madagascar_masoala_0119]
(Madagascar)
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Ectatomma tuberculatum stick insect with orange feet on an Inga legume plant
(Colombia)
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Red beetle [suriname_1494]
(Suriname)
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Red, blue, and yellow (on the underside) butterfly in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Group of caterpillars
(Costa Rica)
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Black, red, and yellow insect [cr_3973]
(Costa Rica)
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Daddy longlegs
(Costa Rica)
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Katydid at night in Yasuni National Park in th Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Spittle bug [madagascar_masoala_0240]
(Madagascar)
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Black caterpillar with long white hairs, a yellow stripe, and red parts
(Colombia)
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Butterfly on fern
(Costa Rica)
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Orange translucent butterfly in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Purple leafhopper with light green and magenta markings [manu_0955]
(Peru)
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Giant walking stick [suriname_0319]
(Suriname)
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Brown leaf katydid in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Katydid [madagascar_masoala_0046]
(Madagascar)
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Katydid [madagascar_masoala_0427]
(Madagascar)
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Malagasy flatid bug (Phromnia rosea) in its nymph stage [madagascar_perinet_0394]
(Madagascar)
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White moth
(Costa Rica)
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Red-eyed fly
(Costa Rica)
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Moth [costa_rica_la_selva_0285]
(Costa Rica)
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Orange butterfly
(Costa Rica)
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Grasshopper on a flower
(Suriname)
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Large brown cricket in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Butterfly [costa_rica_la_selva_1190]
(Costa Rica)
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Mottled gray and black grasshopper
(Colombia)
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Ant [suriname_0866]
(Suriname)
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Metallic green beetle [suriname_2120]
(Suriname)
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Walking stick insect [costa_rica_5409]
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly rests on camera in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Soldier army ants [costa-rica-d_0414]
(Costa Rica)
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Fly
(Peru)
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White moth spotted on a night walk in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Orange butterfly [pan02-2045]
(Panama)
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Blue butterfly
(Panama)
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Metallic blue beetle [suriname_2259]
(Suriname)
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Pink translucent butterfly in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Blue planthopper [madagascar_masoala_0600]
(Madagascar)
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Metallic green Euglossa bee
(Suriname)
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White fly
(Panama)
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Monarch butterfly; Danaus plexippus; chrysalis at the Bocas Butterfly Garden
(Panama)
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Colorful wing of the Malagasy sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus)
(Madagascar)
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Butterflies mating [pan02-2031]
(Panama)
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Colorful butterfly feeding on a yellow flower [br_co-0047]
(Colombia)
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Caterpillar rolled in a leaf
(Suriname)
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Termites [suriname_8942]
(Suriname)
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Swarm of caterpillars
(Costa Rica)
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Orange moth [madagascar_masoala_0084]
(Madagascar)
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Brown grasshopper
(Costa Rica)
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Black, beige, and brown grasshopper
(Costa Rica)
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Moth [costa-rica-d_0356]
(Costa Rica)
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Orange butterfly feeding on damp laundry along an Amazon tributary
(Colombia)
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Leaf cutter ant carrying leaf
(Peru)
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Moth [costa-rica-d_0352]
(Costa Rica)
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Rainforest ant [suriname_8799]
(Suriname)
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Pair of butterflies
(Suriname)
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Meneria Metalmark (Amarynthis meneria) [manu_0657]
(Peru)
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Ants [manu-Manu_1023_1964b]
(Peru)
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Butterfly [costa_rica_la_selva_0783]
(Costa Rica)
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Leaf-cutter ants
(Suriname)
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Grasshopper [madagascar_masoala_0341]
(Madagascar)
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Brown insect (zoomed)
(Panama)
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Butterfly [madagascar_masoala_0089]
(Madagascar)
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Meneria Metalmark (Amarynthis meneria) [manu_0664]
(Peru)
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Leaf-cutter ant nest
(Costa Rica)
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Black, blue, and yellow butterfly [br_co-0090]
(Colombia)
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Damselfly
(Suriname)
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Ants [manu-Manu_1023_1963a]
(Peru)
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Beige katydid feeding
(Costa Rica)
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Wasps clustered on a leaf [suriname_0218]
(Suriname)
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Grasshopper: black head, red antenna, yellow stripes, green legs, red haunches
(Colombia)
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Yellow leaf-shaped katydid [costa_rica_4516]
(Costa Rica)
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Camouflaged insect
(Peru)
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Black cricket
(Suriname)
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Orange butterfly feeding on damp laundry
(Colombia)
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Atta leaf-cutter ants
(Costa Rica)
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Butterfly with transparent wings, eye-spots, and orange-rust coloration (likely Haetera macleannania)
(Colombia)
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Neon-colored wing of the Malagasy sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus)
(Madagascar)
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Unknown caterpillar [madagascar_perinet_0438]
(Madagascar)
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Godart's Cycadian [costa_rica_4592]
(Costa Rica)
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Dark brown cricket
(Suriname)
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Heliconius butterfly
(Panama)
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Praying mantis [cr_4007a]
(Costa Rica)
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Dung Beetle, family Scarabaeidae [costa_rica_5624]
(Costa Rica)
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Dead millipede in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Black, green, and red leafhopper
(Peru)
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Unknown butterfly
(Colombia)
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Cicada [costa_rica_5665]
(Costa Rica)
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Spittle bug [madagascar_masoala_0242]
(Madagascar)
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Hyla tree frog
(Peru)
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Light brown grasshopper with purple antennae
(Suriname)
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Chameleon (Polychrus liogaster) lizard in the Peruvian Amazon
(Peru)
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Mating orange and black beetles
(Costa Rica)
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Darth Vader planthopper
(Peru)
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Assassin Bug, family Reduviidae
(Costa Rica)
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Io Moth (Automeris io) caterpillar [costa_rica_la_selva_0836]
(Costa Rica)
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Godart's Cycadian butterfly (Eumaeus godartii) [costa_rica_4596]
(Costa Rica)
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Green moth with a black body
(Costa Rica)
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Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_0928]
(Suriname)
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Ants on the forest floor
(Suriname)
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Brown insect
(Panama)
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Giraffe weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa) [madagascar_perinet_0321]
(Madagascar)
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Giraffe weevil
(Madagascar)
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Multi-colored grasshopper
(Colombia)
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Black, red, and yellow butterfly
(Costa Rica)
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Katydid [madagascar_masoala_0116]
(Madagascar)
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Mass of caterpillars [cr_3997]
(Costa Rica)
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Wasps clustered on a leaf [suriname_0218a]
(Suriname)
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Striped leafhopper (green, yellow, blue and black)
(Peru)
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Cicada exoskeletons on the underside of a rainforest leaf
(Costa Rica)
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Mossy stick insect [madagascar_perinet_0316]
(Madagascar)
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Caligo sp or Owl Butterfly with its wings closed [cr_4128]
(Costa Rica)
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Purple leafhopper with light green and magenta markings [manu_0951]
(Peru)
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Damselfly [costa_rica_la_selva_1337]
(Costa Rica)
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Damselfly [costa_rica_la_selva_1398]
(Costa Rica)
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Brown katydid [costa_rica_5543]
(Costa Rica)
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Orange-pink and yellow leafhopper
(Peru)
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Mantid
(Madagascar)
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Katydid [costa_rica_la_selva_0819]
(Costa Rica)
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Morpho butterfly in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Black, red, and yellow insect [cr_3962]
(Costa Rica)
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Yellow and blue weevil
(Madagascar)
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Black, blue, and orange butterfly
(Colombia)
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Green katydid [costa_rica_5520]
(Costa Rica)
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Moss-like caterpillar covered with poisonous spines
(Colombia)
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Black pill millipede
(Madagascar)
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Strange moth [costa-rica-d_0348]
(Costa Rica)
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Passion vine blossom with resident ant species
(Suriname)
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Meneria Metalmark (Amarynthis meneria) [manu_0658]
(Peru)
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Clear-wing butterfly in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Red millipede compared with size of hand
(Madagascar)
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Meneria Metalmark (Amarynthis meneria) [manu_0656]
(Peru)
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Insect nymph
(Peru)
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Giant damselfly [suriname_2185]
(Suriname)
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Orange, white, and black clear-winged butterfly (Greta oto) in the Peruvian Amazon
(Peru)
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Insect [madagascar_perinet_0184]
(Madagascar)
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Cricket [madagascar_perinet_0134]
(Madagascar)
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Green insect with yellow spots
(Costa Rica)
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Blue and black insect [suriname_2237]
(Suriname)
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Mantis [madagascar_masoala_0507]
(Madagascar)
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Red-eyed katydid
(Costa Rica)
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White insect with a red mite
(Madagascar)
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88 Butterfly (Diaethria clymena)
(Peru)
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Orange, black, and yellow moth
(Suriname)
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Shield bug [madagascar_masoala_0521]
(Madagascar)
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Bees pollinating a pink and yellow flower [suriname_0333]
(Suriname)
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Wasp
(Peru)
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Giant green katydid [costa-rica_0897]
(Costa Rica)
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Green stick insect [costa_rica_5812a]
(Costa Rica)
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Wasps clustered on a leaf [suriname_0249]
(Suriname)
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Mottled cricket
(Suriname)
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Yellow-headed Soldier Fly, family Stratiomyidae (a true fly that resembles a bee)
(Colombia)
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Madagascar moth with an orange marking on its back [madagascar_masoala_1015]
(Madagascar)
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Pair of Heliconia caterpillar (note the tiny hatchling in the upper left)
(Panama)
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Green pill millipede on tree trunk
(Madagascar)
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Unknown moth [costa_rica_4456]
(Costa Rica)
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Giant cockroach in Madagascar [madagascar_masoala_0970]
(Madagascar)
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Queen (Danaus gilippus) butterfly feeding on a flower
(Costa Rica)
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Weevil in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Red-eyed katydid [costa_rica_5633]
(Costa Rica)
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Blue leafhopper [costa_rica_la_selva_0415]
(Costa Rica)
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Katydid [madagascar_masoala_0102]
(Madagascar)
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Examining a large snake
(Peru)
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Beige katydid feeding [costa_rica_5532]
(Costa Rica)
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Satyrinid (Satyrinae) butterfly with clear wings
(Colombia)
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Green-and-red macaw feeding on a banana
(Peru)
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Metallic green, orange, and brown beetle
(Suriname)
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Yellow and black insect
(Panama)
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Madagascar moth with an orange marking on its back
(Madagascar)
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Wasp
(Suriname)
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Blue, black, and orange butterfly in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Siproeta stelenes (Malachite, Pearly Malachite) Yellow, black, and white butterfly
(Costa Rica)
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Blue leafhopper [costa_rica_la_selva_0416]
(Costa Rica)
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Leaf-cutter ants entering their nest
(Colombia)
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Orange and black weevil [costa_rica_5604]
(Costa Rica)
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Orange, white, and black clear-winged butterfly in the Amazon
(Peru)
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White lined leaf frog (Phyllomedusea vaillanti)
(Peru)
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Caterpillar
(Madagascar)
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Graphium cyrnum, a common buterfly in Masoala/ Nosy Mangabe
(Madagascar)
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Blue and black butterfly [costa_rica_la_selva_1200]
(Costa Rica)
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Termites [suriname_1504]
(Suriname)
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Butterfly or moth caught in a spider's web in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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Butterfly [madagascar_masoala_0496]
(Madagascar)
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Banded Peacock or Fatima (Anartia fatima) butterfly
(Costa Rica)
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Beige katydid
(Costa Rica)
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Rainforest ant [suriname_8791a]
(Suriname)
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Newly hatched caterpillars
(Panama)
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Grasshopper [br_co-0067]
(Colombia)
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Green pill millipede rolled in ball
(Madagascar)
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Olive green, orange, and brown beetle
(Suriname)
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Blue planthopper [madagascar_masoala_0113]
(Madagascar)
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Mating Abracris flavolineata grasshoppers on a blade of grass
(Colombia)
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Mass of caterpillars
(Costa Rica)
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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_5276a]
(Costa Rica)
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Io Moth (Automeris io) caterpillar [costa_rica_la_selva_0834]
(Costa Rica)
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Unknown katydid
(Colombia)
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Pair of sleeping dragonflies [costa_rica_5594]
(Costa Rica)
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Blue Narrow-winged damselfly, family Coenagrionidae
(Costa Rica)
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Green leafhopper with polka dots [costa_rica_4444]
(Costa Rica)
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Io Moth (Automeris io) caterpillar [costa_rica_la_selva_0841]
(Costa Rica)
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Leaf-cutter ant nest [tambopata-Tambopata_1026_3348]
(Peru)
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Heliconius butterfly feeding on a hot lips flower
(Panama)
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Ferocious looking insect in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
(Ecuador)
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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_5269]
(Costa Rica)
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Moth [costa-rica-d_0354]
(Costa Rica)
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Giant daddy longlegs
(Costa Rica)
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Ants in a symbiotic relationship with a plant in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Green Arachides toras caterpillar munching on a leaf
(Panama)
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Donald trump caterpillar (Megalopyge sp)
(Costa Rica)
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Butterflies feeding on a flower
(Peru)
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Brown praying mantis on a lichen-covered tree trunk
(Colombia)
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Leaf cutter ants entering their nest
(Colombia)
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Mosiac butterfly (Colobura dirce) feeding on fruit [pan02-2053]
(Panama)
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Insect [suriname_2477]
(Suriname)
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Leaf katydid
(Peru)
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