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

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Insects devouring a plant leaf (Costa Rica) Cricket Mottled moth Green and orange beetle with six spots Orange praying mantis with green eyes Red and orange beetle Panacea prola butterfly; wings open Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Moth (Brazil) Green and orange beetle with six spots Black, turquoise, yellow, orange, brown, and pink grasshopper Black and turquoise moth Cantheconidea furcellata; an insect predator used to control oil palm pests (IPM) (Malaysia) Green; brown; and black insect Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Crab Orange leafhopper (Indonesia) Blue, yellow, and orange insect (Costa Rica) Red soldier leaf-cutter ant Small black beetle on Barro Colorado (pan02-1718) Red ants (Malaysia) Beetle Unusual moth (Costa Rica) Leaf-mimicking katydid Orange and black assassin bug Yellow and black leafhopper Cryptic grasshopper (Malaysia) Spotted click beetle Wasp nest (Costa Rica) Tiny firefly (Malaysia) Jellyfish Gold dragonfly Metallic blue tiger beetle (Indonesia) Green and white insect Damselfly Green shield bug Praying mantis Giraffe-necked weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa) Red Grasshawk dragonfly (Neurothemis sp)? (Indonesia) Yellow and black leafhopper Giant Atlas beetle Turquoise-headed black flying insect (Brazil) Gray-purple planthopper with an orange eye Spider Brown katydid Rhetus periander butterfly Black base with iridescent blue and neon pink markings Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Spectacular red,white, and blue butterfly Butterfly Insects devouring a plant leaf (Costa Rica) Camouflaged insect Tiger beetle with yellow spots in Kalimantan Fallen tree in Rio Tambopata Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Sweat bees emerging out of their nest Green mantis (Brazil) Green praying mantis with red eyes (Brazil) Blue, green, purple, and red fly Neon green skipper butterfly Large ant Large black beetle on a pants leg in Borneo (Indonesia) Bright red dragonfly Peruvian dragonfly Butterfly Black, green, and red leafhopper Large ant Unknown insect (Malaysia) Butterflies feeding on a flower Ants on an ant plant (Laos) Brown insect (pan02-1752) Blue morpho butterfly at night (Brazil) Heliconius butterfly species Green katydid Red insect with giant antennae (Indonesia) Patterns in a spider web Insect Orange spiral snail shell Blue beetle with a red head (Indonesia) Green stick insect Orange praying mantis with green eyes Red-eyed katydid (Costa Rica) Dung beetles (Suriname) Grasshopper Green and brown-mottled moth Cleaner shrimp in a sponge (Belize) Leaf cutter ants (Atta; Acromyrmex) Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Orange and gray planthopper Caterpillar Brown grasshopper Leaf-mimicking praying mantis (Suriname) Yellow butterly invertebrates: 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 | Page 77 | Page 78 | Page 79 | Page 80 | Page 81 | Page 82 | Page 83 | Page 84 | Page 85 | Page 86 | Page 87 | Page 88 | Page 89 | Page 90 | Page 91 | Page 92