![Moth on the underside of a leaf caught by the sun](https://travel.mongabay.com/costa_rica/150/costa-rica_0968.jpg) Moth on the underside of a leaf caught by the sun (Costa Rica)
![Multicolored leafhopper insect](https://travel.mongabay.com/costa_rica/150/costa-rica-d_0038a.jpg) Multicolored leafhopper insect (Costa Rica)
![Blue, yellow, and orange insect](https://travel.mongabay.com/costa_rica/150/costa-rica-d_0322a.jpg) Blue, yellow, and orange insect (Costa Rica)
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/costa_rica/150/costa_rica_4981.JPG) Yellow and black swallowtail butterfly (Costa Rica)
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/costa_rica/150/costa_rica_5598.JPG) Sleeping blue morpho butterfly (Costa Rica)
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/costa_rica/150/costa_rica_5507.JPG) Giant brown Long-horned Beetle (Callipogon lemoinei) (family Cerambycidae, subfamily Prioninae) with off-white markings (Costa Rica)
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/costa_rica/150/cr_3686.JPG) Transparent moth (Costa Rica)
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/costa_rica/150/cr_3981.JPG) Orange; yellow; and black butterfly (Costa Rica)
![Elongated blue and orange insect](https://travel.mongabay.com/malaysia/150/borneo_3365.JPG) Elongated blue and orange insect (Malaysia)
![Spotted tiger beetle (Cicindela aurulenta)](https://travel.mongabay.com/malaysia/150/borneo_3642b.JPG) Spotted tiger beetle (Cicindela aurulenta) (Malaysia)
![Red; orange; white; black](https://travel.mongabay.com/malaysia/150/borneo_6196.JPG) Red; orange; white; black (Malaysia)
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/suriname/150/suriname_0856b.JPG) Orange and black insect (planthopper?) (Suriname)
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/suriname/150/suriname_1008.JPG) Leaf-mimicking praying mantis (Suriname)
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/suriname/150/suriname_1024a.JPG) Leaf-mimicking praying mantis (Suriname)
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/suriname/150/suriname_1036.JPG) Hot pink and turquoise insect (Suriname)
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/suriname/150/suriname_2360.JPG) Leaf-mimicking insect (Suriname)
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![Blue-eyed dragonfly](https://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_171.jpg) Blue-eyed dragonfly (Brazil)
![Fury white planthopper](https://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_181.jpg) Fury white planthopper (Brazil)
![Turquoise-headed black flying insect](https://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0956.jpg) Turquoise-headed black flying insect (Brazil)
![Red-eyed dragonfly](https://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0983.jpg) Red-eyed dragonfly (Brazil)
![Red-eyed dragonfly](https://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0996.jpg) Red-eyed dragonfly (Brazil)
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/colombia/brodie-150/br_co-0243.jpg) Red insect
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/colombia/150/co01-9069a.jpg) Red; black; and white butterfly
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/colombia/150/co03-9574.jpg) Transparent butterfly of the Nymphalidae family (Subfamily Satyrinae)
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/colombia/150/co03-9808a.jpg) Black; blue; and orange butterfly in Colombia
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/colombia/150/co05-0712a.jpg) Poisonous caterpillar displaying its neon green but venemous spines
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/colombia/150/co07-0341a.jpg) Black; orange; and light blue butterfly on a Heliconia leaf
![Blue and green butterfly](https://www.mongabay.com/images/gabon/150/gabon-24080.JPG) Blue and green butterfly (Gabon)
![Brachydiplax dragonfly on blade of grass (Kalimantan; Borneo (Indonesian Borneo))](https://www.mongabay.com/thumbnails/indonesia/kalimantan/kali9369.JPG) Brachydiplax dragonfly on blade of grass (Indonesia)
![Yellow-; green-; and orange-spotted butterfly in leaf litter (Kalimantan; Borneo (Indonesian Borneo))](https://www.mongabay.com/thumbnails/indonesia/kalimantan/kali9642a.jpg) Yellow-; green-; and orange-spotted butterfly in leaf litter (Indonesia)
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/indonesia/150/kalimantan_0482.jpg) Red grasshawk dragonfly
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/indonesia/150/sumatra_9083.jpg) Blue-eyed butterfly (Indonesia)
![Postman butterfly, Heliconius erato or melpomene (blue form)](https://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_157.jpg) Postman butterfly, Heliconius erato or melpomene (blue form) (Brazil)
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![](https://images.wildmadagascar.org/thumbnails/nosy_mangabe/leaf-insect01860.jpg) Leaf insect
![](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/madagascar/150/madagascar_1648.jpg) Moth
![](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/madagascar/150/madagascar_3516.jpg) Leaf-mimicking treehopper
![](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/madagascar/150/mcar_0007.jpg) Orange and blue planthopper
![](https://www.mongabay.com/thumbnails/malaysia/malaysia0362b.jpg) A katydid in Malaysia with a red head; black body; yellow winds; and black and yellow legs (Malaysia)
![](https://www.mongabay.com/thumbnails/malaysia/malaysia0505a.jpg) Close up on leaf insect (Malaysia)
![](https://www.mongabay.com/thumbnails/malaysia/malaysia0623a.jpg) Colorful butterflies feeding on minerals on a river beach (Malaysia)
![](https://www.mongabay.com/thumbnails/malaysia/malaysia0909.JPG) Metallic green; yellow; and copper colored beetle (Malaysia)
![](https://travel.mongabay.com/panama/150/pan01-0777.jpg) Black caterpillar with off-white stripes; yellow spines; and orange antenna (pan01-0777)
![](https://mongabay.org/images/brazil/iguazu_butterflies-th.gif) Iguazu Butterflies; Brazil
![](https://mongabay.com/thumbnails/honduras/fauna/insects/Green_Grasshopper_00.gif) Grasshopper; Honduras
![](https://mongabay.com/thumbnails/honduras/fauna/insects/Leaf_Moth.gif) Moth; Honduras
![](https://mongabay.com/thumbnails/honduras/fauna/insects/ruins_moth.gif) Moth; Honduras
![Owl butterfly (Caligo idomeneus)](https://www.mongabay.com/thumbnails/peru/tambopata/Tambopata_1028_4668.JPG) Owl butterfly (Caligo idomeneus) (Peru)
![](https://www.mongabay.com/images/uganda/150/ug1_2954.JPG) Swarms of lake flies in a garden near Lake Victoria (Uganda)
![](https://www.mongabay.com/images/uganda/150/ug3-3283a.JPG) Black and yellow butterfly (Uganda)
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