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My wife and I just returned from Peru with 20 high school students we took with us. I can't post any pics with students but I have lots of great photos of inverts. The students did a night hike in the Amazon, canoed in the Amazon and flashed for caiman at night with lights from a boat. We also did a 6 hour day hike. Here are a few photos. Of course, no trip to Peru is complete without a stop at Machu Picchu. Here is my wife and I.
There were lots of lizards at Machu Picchu.
Here is a typical small village in the Andes. There was a festival going on so everyone was dressed up.
This is a typical street in a small town in the Peruvian Amazon.
These are common in the markets. A frame of 15 butterflies cost about $20. A large framed tarantula was about $10. The mounted T's were mostly pamphobeteus antinous
A large mounted beetle.
I love the reflexion in the lakes.
A 4 foot black caiman surfaced about 6 inches from our canoe.
There were thousands of butterflies along some of the rivers. Here are some flying around a turtle.
An interesting frog we found during a night hike.
And another.
We saw very few snakes, but here is a one we found on a tree.
A bunch of wasps.
A very colorful beetle. This beetle is almost 1 1/2 inches.
A butterfly at night.
There were lots of grasshoppers.
And lots of stick insects.
A bullet ant. This one is about an inch.
I love this orb weaver. It was huge. The body was almost the size of a golf ball. I have never seen one this large.
We found lots of avicularia. Here is a nice female.
Here is my son with an avicularia.
There were lots of interesting spiders. Many were 3 - 4 inches in legspan.
There were lots of tarantulas burrows. They had some good sized pamphobeteus in them. The Pamphos were very easy to trick with grass. My wife and I were successful in getting the tarantulas to leave their burrows almost everytime. Sometimes we could get the same tarantulas to come out up to 10 times in a row. They would come out chasing the grass up to 2 feet away from the entrance and then dart back in. I blocked the burrow of this one with my mosquito head cover so I could get a decent pic. They were very fast at darting back in.
What surprised me the most, was that sometimes many T's were in thre same burrow. I hadn't seen that before. In one burrow a 3 inch all black tarantula came out chasing the grass. On the second try a 4 inch brown one came out of the same hole. And after that another 4 inch black one came out with a bald butt. I don't know how many share the same burrow but they were good sized and apparently living communally. The burrows were less that 2 feet deep.
Here is my wife trying to get the T to come out. Most were black but a few were brown. Occasionally we could get other large spiders to do the same thing from what we thought were tarantula burrows but were other large spiders. The burrows would range in size to 6 inches wide to 1 inch wide.
There were lots of lizards at Machu Picchu.
Here is a typical small village in the Andes. There was a festival going on so everyone was dressed up.
This is a typical street in a small town in the Peruvian Amazon.
These are common in the markets. A frame of 15 butterflies cost about $20. A large framed tarantula was about $10. The mounted T's were mostly pamphobeteus antinous
A large mounted beetle.
I love the reflexion in the lakes.
A 4 foot black caiman surfaced about 6 inches from our canoe.
There were thousands of butterflies along some of the rivers. Here are some flying around a turtle.
An interesting frog we found during a night hike.
And another.
We saw very few snakes, but here is a one we found on a tree.
A bunch of wasps.
A very colorful beetle. This beetle is almost 1 1/2 inches.
A butterfly at night.
There were lots of grasshoppers.
And lots of stick insects.
A bullet ant. This one is about an inch.
I love this orb weaver. It was huge. The body was almost the size of a golf ball. I have never seen one this large.
We found lots of avicularia. Here is a nice female.
Here is my son with an avicularia.
There were lots of interesting spiders. Many were 3 - 4 inches in legspan.
There were lots of tarantulas burrows. They had some good sized pamphobeteus in them. The Pamphos were very easy to trick with grass. My wife and I were successful in getting the tarantulas to leave their burrows almost everytime. Sometimes we could get the same tarantulas to come out up to 10 times in a row. They would come out chasing the grass up to 2 feet away from the entrance and then dart back in. I blocked the burrow of this one with my mosquito head cover so I could get a decent pic. They were very fast at darting back in.
What surprised me the most, was that sometimes many T's were in thre same burrow. I hadn't seen that before. In one burrow a 3 inch all black tarantula came out chasing the grass. On the second try a 4 inch brown one came out of the same hole. And after that another 4 inch black one came out with a bald butt. I don't know how many share the same burrow but they were good sized and apparently living communally. The burrows were less that 2 feet deep.
Here is my wife trying to get the T to come out. Most were black but a few were brown. Occasionally we could get other large spiders to do the same thing from what we thought were tarantula burrows but were other large spiders. The burrows would range in size to 6 inches wide to 1 inch wide.
