rainforest insects (pix)

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Giant stick insect (Peru)	Stick insect (Peru)	Beetle with black body; white and black back; and turquoise legs (Peru)
Insect with red eyes; turquoise markings; and white feather-like appendages near its tail (Peru)	Bee burrowing in the sand (Peru)	Panacea prola butterfly; wings open (Peru)
Leaf-mimicking praying mantis (Suriname)	Insect with red eyes; turquoise markings; and white feather-like appendages near its tail (Peru)	Butterfly with clear wings and false eye-spots
Leaf mimic insect	Brown katydid with green marking on its back (Peru)	Red rainforest crab (Peru)
Light orange caterpillar	Colorful; but known grasshopper-like insect (Peru)	Callicore cynosura butterfly feeding on minerals from a muddy river bank (Peru)
Red; black; and white insect (Peru)	Black-and-white butterfly with orange eyespot in Peru (Peru)	Clear-winged Cithaerias pireta butterfly feeding on dung (Peru)
Rhetus periander butterfly (Peru)	Orange and black insect	Insects (pan01-0833)
Black; blue; and turquoise dragonfly (Peru)	Panacea prola butterfly; wings closed (Peru)	Katydid with light green spots on back and each leg (Peru)
Red Grasshawk (Neurothemis fluctuans) (Indonesia)	Rhinocerous beetle	Katydid on tree trunk (Peru)
Green dragonfly with alternating green and black abdominal segments	Silver-gray millipede in eating leaf Amazon rainforest (Peru)	Blue Morpho Caterpillar; Honduras
Butterfly in the rainforest canopy (Peru)	Beetle: black back; orange head (Suriname)	Black cricket (Suriname)
Insect (Suriname)	Unknown butterfly	Comet moth (Andasibe)