Image Gallery - Image gallery: arthropods

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Brown grasshopper (Malaysia)	crab (Panama)	Blue, green, purple, and red fly	Red millipede (Indonesia)
Common Lime Butterfly (Papilio demoleus)	Orange, metallic green, and black assassin bug	Brownish-red beetle (Costa Rica)	Black cricket (Suriname)
Stick insect in defensive position (Malaysia)	Black and neon green planthopper with red eyes	Black butterfly with a white fringe; an orange patch; and turquoise spots (Costa Rica)	Small reddish insect which appears to be doing something with white sticky material on the stem of a leaf (Malaysia)
Bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) Bullet ants are known for their severe sting. Their stings are said to be the most painful and debilitating known for any insect Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)	Monarch butterfly feeding on a flower (Costa Rica)	Moss-like caterpillar covered with poisonous spines	Beige grasshopper
Swallowtail feeding on red flowers (Utah; United States)	Black and yellow weevil	Fuschia, orange, and blue butterfly	Multi-colored grasshopper
Giant ant in Laos (Laos)	Brown grasshopper (Malaysia)	Black ants (Thailand)	Pink and green grasshopper at the petite tsingy
Black and orange beetle (Laos)	Katydid (Costa Rica)	Sleeping dragonfly (Costa Rica)	Green and brown beetle
Colorful fly (Malaysia)	Insect	Butterfly feeding on flowers	Red and orange insect
Strange moth (Costa Rica)	Nephila spider (Thailand)	Black wasp with blue leg segments and orange antenna tips (Brazil)	Red millipede on log
Fighting crabs (Madagascar)	Brownish-red beetle (Costa Rica)	Green preying mantis (Indonesia)	Heliconius caterpillar (pan01-0852)
Turquoise and black jumping spider	Brown insect (pan01-0712)	Zebra longwing (Heliconius charithonia vazquezae)	Hot pink and turquoise insect (Suriname)
Orb spider	Yellow-orange moth (Indonesia)	Butterfly (Uganda)	Leaf-mimicking praying mantis (Suriname)
Blue and black butterfly in Borneo; wings closed (Indonesia)	Green and yellow caterpillar (Brazil)	Black butterfly with white markings in Java (Indonesia)	Hairy black caterpillars
Yellow and black weevil	Black butterfly with a white fringe; an orange patch; and turquoise spots (Costa Rica)	White furry insect (possibly Fulgorid Planthopper nymph) (Indonesia)	Unknown insect (Gabon)
Orange, black, and white bug	Yellow wasp	Green katydid with a neon blue racing stripe	Yellow-speckled weevil
Swallowtail butterfly	Metallic green beetle (Malaysia)	Assassin bug	Orange and brown butterfly
Giant black bee feeding on morning glory flower nectar (Indonesia)	Green unicorn caterpillar	Walking stick insect	Insect nest emerging from rainforest tree (Indonesia)
Termites (Suriname)	Orb spider with its legs tucked in	Butterfly; Honduras	Leaf-cutter ant nest Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)
Red-eyed fly (Indonesia)	Neon green skipper butterfly	Black and yellow weevil