Image Gallery - Image gallery: arthropods

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Iridescent turquoise and black butterfly in hand	White insect with black spots and an orange head	Black and deep orange butterfly	Butterfly
Bright red-orange moth	Beetle with black body; white and black back; and turquoise legs (Peru)	Tail-less whip scorpion (Costa Rica)	Tarantula wasp (Black wasp-like insect with indigo blue eyes; orange wings; and orange antenna) (Costa Rica)
Black wasp on canopy platform (Peru)	Brown grasshopper (Malaysia)	Green and brown shield bug (Brazil)	Ants hauling body parts of a dead insect up a tree trunk (Indonesia)
Clear-winged Cithaerias pireta butterfly (Peru)	Red beetle (Suriname)	Rainbow Bush Locust (Phymateus saxosus)	Arachides toras caterpillar (pan01-0857)
Green grasshopper (Peru)	Colorful grasshopper	Large stick insect (Peru)	Brown grasshopper
Black insect with an orange-red head (Belize)	Green grasshopper	Three beige; yellow; black; and white grasshoppers on a leaf (Peru)	Yellow, orange, and black damselfly (Indonesia)
Panacea prola butterfly; wings open (Peru)	Unknown insect (Peru)	White furry insect (possibly Fulgorid Planthopper nymph) (Indonesia)	Green fly
Multicolored grasshopper	Leaf mimic insect	Firefly on ground (Peru)	Iridescent green beetle (Peru)
Blue morpho on a wooden deck	Rhetus periander butterfly (Peru)	Brown weevil (Malaysia)	Ailanthus Webworm Moth (Atteva punctella) [Lime green and orange polka dot insect] (Costa Rica)
Nest of colony spiders (family: Araneidae) (Peru)	Black caterpillar with off-white stripes and yellow spines (pan01-0773a)	Biting fly (Brazil)	Orange assassin bug
Walking stick insects mating (Peru)	Leaf-mimicking praying mantis (Suriname)	Black, green, and turqoise cricket (Brazil)	Brownish-red beetle (Costa Rica)
Shitzu-like caterpillar; white and yellow fur (Peru)	Blue green and copper colored grasshopper with large red eyes and yellow antennae (Indonesia)	Ants on a red-orange flower bud	Stick insect in the New Guinea rainforest
Pill millipede (Glomeris connexa) (Malaysia)	Crazy giant centipede	Platynopus melanoleueus; an insect used for integrated pest management of oil palm (Malaysia)	Katydid camouflaged to resemble bird droppings on a fern (Indonesia)
Brown grasshopper with white marking (Peru)	Blue dragonfly	Bright green caterpillar displaying its toxic spines in the Amazon rainforest	Stick insect (Peru)
Black insect (unknown) (Peru)	Orange and black leafhopper	Giant dragonfly (Suriname)	Grasshopper with a white stripe (Indonesia)
Fulgoridae family bug	Light green grasshopper with yellow and maroon striped legs (Peru)	Black and yellow weevil	Red; orange; white; black (Malaysia)
Grasshopper with a green body, blue antennae, turquoise hind legs, red front legs, and a black head	Longhorn Beetle in flight with guide Armand	Orange and black weevil (Costa Rica)	Brown grasshopper (Malaysia)
Green grasshopper with an orange abdomen (Costa Rica)	Maroon, brown, and orange insect (Brazil)	Blue-eyed dragonfly (Brazil)	Insect with red eyes; turquoise markings; and white feather-like appendages near its tail (Peru)
Wolf spider (Peru)	Reddish-brown stick insect (Peru)	Grasshopper	Zebra longwing (Heliconius charithonia vazquezae)
Close up headshot of a green katydid in Panama (pan01-0682)	Heliconius butterly (Belize)	Arachides toras caterpillar (pan01-0856)	Colorful cicada