Weird Looking Insects in Panama

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Strange Insects with ant

Here we see some strange looking insects with ants around.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Weird Looking Little Bug

Weird Looking Little Bug with antennas seen near El Valle, Panama.

Weird Looking Little Bug

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Unknown Skipper

Little butterfly that is probably a little skipper as seen in Altos del Maria, Panama.

Unknown Skipper

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Unknown Black Bug

Unknown Black Bug seen this weekend in the hills around El Valle, Panama.

Unknown Black Bug

Thursday, July 25, 2013

From Wikipedia: Male cicadas have loud noisemakers called "tymbals" on the sides of the abdominal base. Their "singing" is not the stridulation (where one structure is rubbed against another) of many other familiar sound-producing insects like crickets: the tymbals are regions of the exoskeleton that are modified to form a complex membrane with thin, membranous portions and thickened "ribs". Contracting the internal tymbal muscles produces a clicking sound as the tymbals buckle inwards. As these muscles relax, the tymbals return to their original position producing another click. The interior of the male abdomen is substantially hollow to amplify the resonance of the sound. A cicada rapidly vibrates these membranes, and enlarged chambers derived from the tracheae make its body serve as a resonance chamber, greatly amplifying the sound. The cicada modulates the sound by positioning its abdomen toward or away from the substrate. Additionally, each species has its own distinctive "song".