Pictures of insects [last update 2011-12-25]

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Below you will find a collection of photos from various places. Except where noted, pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler, copyright 1994-2012. While these images are the property of mongabay.com, it may be permissible to use them for non-commercial purposes (like powerpoint presentations and school projects), provided that the images are not altered in any form. Please read this for more details. If you are interested in using an image in a publication please contact me.

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Red; orange; white; black (Malaysia) Butterfly (Great Mormon - Papilio memnon?) Giant walking stick (Suriname) Violet; blue; and brown butterfly (Suriname) Red katydid with a green head and black antennae Small black; red; yellow; and white beetle (Peru) Red insect with black legs (pan01-0799a) Giant dragonfly (Suriname) Butterflies feeding on a flower Unknown insect (Peru) Brown grasshopper with white marking (Peru) Platynopus melanoleueus; an insect used for integrated pest management of oil palm (Malaysia) Rhetus periander butterfly (Peru) Pink and purple butterfly Heliconius butterly (Belize) Grasshopper Green katydid Large white and yellow fury caterpillarthat resembles a shitzu (Peru) Urania leilus day-flying or diurnal moth (Peru) Dusky Titi Monkey (Callicebus spp.) Local name: TocÛn Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Brown walking stick Zig zag beetle Blue morpho (Morpho menelaus) caterpillar (pan01-0839) Green grasshopper eating a banana leaf Blue dragonfly (Malaysia) Metallic green beetle (Suriname) Arachides toras caterpillar (pan01-0857) Green grasshopper (Peru) Stick insect in the New Guinea rainforest Leaf-mimicking praying mantis (Suriname) Red beetles Dark gray moth with blue iridescence (Costa Rica) Christmas beetle in Bali Darth Vader planthopper Red and black insects hatching out their eggs (Costa Rica) Light orange caterpillar Orange and brown butterfly Brown weevil (Malaysia) Butterfly Beautiful red,white, and blue butterfly Yellow and black grasshopper (Indonesia) Multicolored katydid Heliconius butterfly on a hotlips flower (Venezuela) Long-nosed black beetle with orange markings on its back (Costa Rica) Close up of a cicada Black wasp on canopy platform (Peru) Red and green katydid Yellow leaf-shaped katydid (Costa Rica) Iridescent turquoise and black butterfly in hand Arawacus butterfly (Peru) Cicada in the Borneo rainforest Stick insect Brown grasshopper (Malaysia) Silver-gray millipede in eating leaf Amazon rainforest (Peru) Ghost Mantis (Phyllocrania paradoxa) Orange and black insect Blue-eyed fly (Indonesia) Wasp in the Amazon rainforest Praying mantis standing guard of its tree (Peru) Rainbow Bush Locust (Phymateus saxosus) Owl butterfly (Caligo idomeneus) (Peru) Blue, green, purple, and red fly Stick insect (Peru) Red-orange; black; white; and maroon caterpillar on underside of leaf (Peru) Blue beetle with a red head (Indonesia) Insect; Thailand Black insect with an orange-red head (Belize) Green caterpillar on a new red leaf (pan01-0701a) Beetle with black body; white and black back; and turquoise legs (Peru) Giant hissing cockroach pollinating a purple flower Insect (Suriname) Metallic blue, green, and orange beetle Neon green skipper butterfly Green stick insect (Costa Rica) Postman butterfly (Brazil) Insects; Malaysia Elongated blue and orange insect (Malaysia) Butterfly Green beetle (Suriname) Leaf-cutter ants (Costa Rica) Black caterpillar on a tree stem (Uganda) Blue green and copper colored grasshopper with large red eyes and yellow antennae (Indonesia) Flat beetle Orange; green; black; yellow; and turquoise grasshopper Moth that resembles a leaf Strange moth (Costa Rica) Green grasshopper with an orange abdomen (Costa Rica) insects: Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 | Page 9 | Page 10 | Page 11 | Page 12 | Page 13 | Page 14 | Page 15 | Page 16 | Page 17 | Page 18 | Page 19 | Page 20 | Page 21 | Page 22 | Page 23 | Page 24 | Page 25 | Page 26 | Page 27 | Page 28 | Page 29 | Page 30 | Page 31 | Page 32 | Page 33 | Page 34 | Page 35 | Page 36 | Page 37 | Page 38 | Page 39 | Page 40 | Page 41 | Page 42 | Page 43 | Page 44 | Page 45 | Page 46 | Page 47 | Page 48 | Page 49 | Page 50 | Page 51 | Page 52 | Page 53 | Page 54 | Page 55 | Page 56 | Page 57 | Page 58 | Page 59 | Page 60 | Page 61 | Page 62 | Page 63 | Page 64 | Page 65 | Page 66 | Page 67 | Page 68 | Page 69 | Page 70 | Page 71 | Page 72 | Page 73 | Page 74 | Page 75 | Page 76