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

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

Little Cicada

Little Cicada
Little Cicada
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".

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Huge Fly

Huge fly as seen in the mountains in Cocle at around 1000 meters above sea level.
Huge Fly

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Little Black and White Bug

Little Black and White Bug seen here on a hike along Rio Maria in Altos del Maria, Panama.
Little Black and White Bug

Monday, July 1, 2013

Huge Female Hercules Beetle

Huge Female Hercules Beetle as seen in the mountains of Altos del Maria Panama (around 7 cm long or almost 3 inches)
Huge Female Hercules Beetle

Huge Female Hercules Beetle - Front View


Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Big Strange Beetle

Big Strange Beetle found in our garden last week. (About 4 - 5 cm long)
Big Strange Beetle

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Automeris Catterpilar

From this Automeris Catterpilar a beautiful colored moth will emerge someday.

Automeris Catterpilar

Friday, May 10, 2013


These colorful bugs are around quite often here in our garden.

Colorful Bug on yellow flower

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Little Green Bug

Little Green Bug hanging on the underside of a leaf in a tree. Name unknown.
Little Green Bug

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Walking Stick Bug

Here is an image of another Walking Stick Bug, Stick insect species, often called walking sticks, range in size from the tiny, half-inch-long (11.6-millimeter-long) Timema cristinae of North America, to the formidable 13-inch-long (328-millimeter-long) Phobaeticus kirbyi of Borneo. They have a lifespan of up to 3 years.

Walking Stick Bug

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Tiny Red and White Bug

Tiny Red and White Bug seen in the mountains near El Valle, Panama.
Tiny Red and White Bug

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Green Spider

Here in this image we see a little green spider (thats what I think it is) hidding on a green leaf, image taken in the mountains near El Valle, Panama.
Little Green Spider

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Tettigoniidae

Tettigoniidae

















From Wikipedia: The family Tettigoniidae, known in American English as katydids and in British English as bush-crickets, contains more than 6,400 species. It is part of the suborder Ensifera and the only family in the superfamily Tettigonioidea. They are also known as long-horned grasshoppers, although they are more closely related to crickets and weta than to grasshoppers. Many tettigoniids exhibit mimicry and camouflage, commonly with shapes and colors similar to leaves.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Little Green and yellow bug

Here is another little unkown insect its a Little Green and yellow bug.

Friday, November 30, 2012

Little strange looking insect

Little strange looking insect image taken in Panama's rain forest.
Little strange looking insect