Peru Field Pics: If you have a slow connection don't open this. 200+ Pics!

[Jmugleston]

Inverts:

Ever been mooned by a katydid?

This one has had better days:

Just thought I'd sneak a vertebrate into this thread since it had a cricket crawling on it.

A very impressive bee mimic moth

These litte guys would crawl as a single unit until you broke them apart. Then they regroup and continue moving as one unit.

A couple wasp mimic katydids

Mammals:

Cuy (guinea pig): Not as delicious as it looks.

Birds:

 

[Jmugleston]

Herps:

 

[GriffinSmith]

That is awesome, I can't wait to go somewhere cool like that

 

[catfishrod69]

those are some amazing pics...i love that giant water bug, have always wanted one..thanks for sharing.

 

[BCscorp]

Awesome pics! Very cool trip!!

 

[JC]

Goldmine, thanks for sharing!

Did you eat the rodent?

 

[Terry D]

WOW!!

 

[Jmugleston]

Goldmine, thanks for sharing!

Did you eat the rodent?

Regretfully yes. They said it was a delicacy. From talking with others, it sounds like mine wasn't prepared well. It tasted like burned hair and football leather....at least what I imagine those in combination would taste like.

 

[Spunky]

Awesome pictures! Thanks for sharing!

 

[moloch]

Wow, you found so much. Lots of interesting animals. I loved the shot of this well disguised cat:

This butterfly was just amazing. I am guessing that it must be one of the Rhiodinids (metalmarks). I will see if I can find it.

Regards,
David

 

[Zman181]

Amazing!!!! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Hendersoniana]

This is sooo cool! I would love to visit Peru one day to take these many photos! The one scorpion was amazing, so many Ts, not enough scorps :}. The water bug was so huge, everything there compared to ur hand is humongous! Btw are u sure a wasp would mimics a katydid? I dun see how it would bnenefit haha .

 

[Jmugleston]

This is sooo cool! I would love to visit Peru one day to take these many photos! The one scorpion was amazing, so many Ts, not enough scorps :}. The water bug was so huge, everything there compared to ur hand is humongous! Btw are u sure a wasp would mimics a katydid? I dun see how it would bnenefit haha .

I had to check my wording on that one to make sure I put a wasp-mimic katydid not a katydid mimic wasp. The wasp mimics are amazing. They're supposed to mimic a wasp's flight as well. They look a lot like a pompilid until you get close enough to realize that they're a tettigoniid. We cheated as the males come to MV lamps so I came back to camp and another had picked these off the screen for me.

 

[Hendersoniana]

They look really cool either way haha! Did u encounter anymore scorpions there? There is also a pic of the wasp on the leaf with many 'spikes' protruding out, that is a type of fungus right? They are really interesting, but dangerous to insects...

 

[kingbaboonlover]

WOW! I love them all!

I gotta love the 2 parrots and the crocodile most! so cute

 

[Jmugleston]

They look really cool either way haha! Did u encounter anymore scorpions there? There is also a pic of the wasp on the leaf with many 'spikes' protruding out, that is a type of fungus right? They are really interesting, but dangerous to insects...

Just the one scorpion. I wasn't searching very hard for them though. That one was found in close proximity to the Cyriocosmus sp. above. They were sharing a log along with numerous beetles, crickets, millipedes, and other inverts. The wasp on the leaf has fallen victim to a fungus that causes it to climb, latch on, and work as a method for spreading spores of the fungus. I've found grasshoppers at the early stages of this infection where a perfectly looking grasshopper looks to be hugging a blade of grass and holding on for dear life.

 

[venom81]

i hope i go to a place like this when i die.

 

[tarcan]

amazing selection! Crazy that you caught a jaguar on picture, that is great!

Although I disliked the handling pictures, I still enjoyed seeing the glass wing buterfly.

Martin

 

[Jmugleston]

amazing selection! Crazy that you caught a jaguar on picture, that is great!

Although I disliked the handling pictures, I still enjoyed seeing the glass wing buterfly.

Martin

Perhaps I should put a disclaimer next time warning that hands may be present in the photos.

If I were just sight seeing I would have tried to photograph them in natural settings as I prefer them that way as well. On this trip I was collecting for my research and I didn't want to risk losing the insect solely for the aesthetic quality of a photograph.

 

[Anastasia]

Looks like fun indeed! trip to South America is on my bucket list
I like the caterpillar look like bird pooh : awesome!
on and bat! that's just great

Thank you for sharing!