Pictures of rainforest 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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x (Malaysia) Brownish-red beetle (Costa Rica) Red ants (Malaysia) Bee approaching a bird-of-paradise flower (Costa Rica) Orange; black; and yellow butterfly (Costa Rica) Leaf-mimicking praying mantis (Suriname) Black and white butterfly (Malaysia) Beetle: black back; orange head (Suriname) Small butterfly at night Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Orange; green; and brown grasshopper (Costa Rica) Stick insect (Costa Rica) Green backed beetle with orange underparts (Malaysia) Brown moth (Malaysia) Leaf-mimicking praying mantis (Suriname) Green katydid (Costa Rica) Cryptic grasshopper (Malaysia) Green praying mantis (Malaysia) Colorful grasshopper (Malaysia) Giant brown beetle with off-white markings (Costa Rica) Wasps clustered on a leaf (Suriname) Cantheconidea furcellata; an insect predator used to control oil palm pests (IPM) (Malaysia) Rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros); an oil palm pest (Malaysia) Yellow fungi growing on decaying logs Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Transparent moth (Costa Rica) Orange; black; and yellow butterfly (Suriname) Scarab beetle on a ball of dung in the Borneo rainforest (Malaysia) Rainforest termite nest (Suriname) Praying mantis (Costa Rica) Yellow and black insect (Malaysia) Green moth with a black body (Costa Rica) Hot pink and turquoise insect (Suriname) Slate gray and red butterfly (Costa Rica) Ant nest (Suriname) Transparent moth (Costa Rica) Black beetle (Costa Rica) Green cicada (Malaysia) White buttefly (Suriname) Black and orange banded insect (Suriname) Platynopus melanoleueus; an insect used for oil palm IPM (Malaysia) Blue-gray dragonfly (Malaysia) Yellow and black insect (Malaysia) Green grasshopper with an orange abdomen (Costa Rica) Green praying mantis (Malaysia) Platynopus melanoleueus; an insect used for integrated pest management of oil palm (Malaysia) Green katydid (Costa Rica) Cryptic grasshopper (Malaysia) Yellow and black insect (Malaysia) Leaf mimicking grasshopper (Suriname) Ants on the forest floor (Suriname) x (Malaysia) Caterpillar (Suriname) Dung beetle (Suriname) Insect (Suriname) Black and yellow grasshopper (Malaysia) Black beetle (Costa Rica) Tarantula spider (Peru) Polyrhachis pruinosa ant; a species that specializes on pitcher plant feeding (Malaysia) Transparent moth (Costa Rica) Polyrhachis pruinosa ant; a species that specializes on pitcher plant feeding (Malaysia) Black butterfly with white; magenta; and red markings (Costa Rica) Dark gray and red butterfly (Costa Rica) Tarantula wasp (Black wasp-like insect with indigo blue eyes; orange wings; and orange antenna) (Costa Rica) People in canoe on the Rio Tambopata Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Large armored beetle (Malaysia) Yellow and black insect (Malaysia) Orange beetle (Malaysia) Green grasshopper (Costa Rica) Grasshawk (Neurothemis fluctuans) (Indonesia) Termites (Suriname) Brownish-red beetle (Costa Rica) Pair of sleeping dragonflies (Costa Rica) Brown colored cicada (Indonesia) Elongated blue and orange insect (Malaysia) Irridescent green beetle (Suriname) Green katydid (Costa Rica) Pair of butterflies (Suriname) Winged insect (Suriname) Green grasshopper with an orange abdomen (Costa Rica) Beetle (Costa Rica) Unknown butterfly with orange; brown; and white markings on outer part of the wing (Peru) Orange beetle (Malaysia) Blue morpho with its wings closed (Costa Rica) Elongated blue and orange insect (Malaysia) Pair of sleeping dragonflies (Costa Rica) Ants on a dead leaf in Sabah, Malaysia Pink insect with turquoise feet and eyes (Suriname) Red beetle (Suriname) rainforest 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