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Representative butterflies of Costa Rica

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Алексей Яковлев, 30.09.2007 17:25

I took all the pictures in August 2007

Heraclides (Papilio) thoas-ubiquitous
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Urbanus proteus proteus - Tortuguero (Caribbean coast)
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Ithomia heraldica and Greta sp. on ageratum. In Monteverde, there is an itomiida on each of these flowers!
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Lantana is loved by heliconiids, like this
Heliconius hecale
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Hamadryas amphinome. Hamadryas flapping their wings try to land on a fence or tree trunk
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Anartia fatima is absolutely ubiquitous
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There are a lot of parides in Costa Rica, and different biotopes have their own species. They do not tolerate strong sun and flutter in the shade on a stachitarfet or the same lantana. Top left is a female sailboat mowing under parides. On the right is Parides photinus. Bottom - Parides iphidamas
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Caligo eurilochus flies only in the mornings and evenings in semi-twilight, when there is no sun and, accordingly, birds or bats.
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Siproeta stelens - sometimes a massive species, as in the meadows of the national park Rincon de la Vieja
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This post was edited by Alexey Yakovlev - 07.07.2008 00: 35

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30.09.2007 17:39, Zhuk

The fathead is just awesome!

30.09.2007 18:12, Pavel Morozov

And you can collect and export them from there?

30.09.2007 18:41, lepidopterolog

Yes, the thick head is gorgeous. Their photos are rarely seen in the literature and the Internet, in South America, everything is usually morpho, heliconids and sailboats are photographed. The shape of the wings is similar to the sailboat Lamproptera meges from the South-West. Asia smile.gif.

30.09.2007 19:03, Алексей Яковлев

And you can collect and export them from there?

And you can collect and export them from there?


Officially, you can't export, so you can't buy anything from Costa Rica, except what is bred on farms. However, as you can imagine, no one will bother your bags at customs, and they do not glow on the X-ray. wink.gif

In general, Costa Rica has up to 5% of the world's biodiversity!!! We caught about 1000 butterflies!!! Right now they are being determined.

When you catch, there's no time to take pictures, you know. Therefore, the most interesting things are caught all at once! smile.gif
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01.10.2007 1:31, RippeR

I love thickheads! It remains only to squeeze the pigeons in smile.gif
I hope to see photos of straightened wink.gifones as well

01.10.2007 16:27, Алексей Яковлев

We caught a lot of fatheads, ignored even more smile.gif)) (and real ones, not urbanuses). So, as soon as we spread it out, I'll send you photos wink.gifMostly focused on Ithomiidae, of which there are at least 60 species in Monteverde alone!!! (one heel, by our standards). Pigeons were out of season, one small thing flew. but beautiful views, apparently, in the rainy season do not fly frown.gif

13.10.2007 11:07, AntSkr

Have you ever been caught in the light?

22.10.2007 17:26, Алексей Яковлев

Have you ever been caught in the light?

No. There, without any tricks, they only managed to swing a net. What's not a SWIPE-NEW VIEW jump.gif

22.10.2007 17:30, AntSkr

Well, at night, after all, daytime ones don't fly... There's probably an impressive nocturnal entomofauna there...

22.10.2007 18:39, Алексей Яковлев

There wasn't much to see at night. Although the little things, as always, a lot. But there weren't many large butterflies. The sky is starry, even if you crack! Another rainy season is called!

26.06.2008 22:57, Алексей Яковлев

Achlyodes busirus heros

Costa Rica. Rincon de la Vieja National Park

Pictures:
picture: Rincon_de_la_Vieja_National_Butterfly.jpg
Rincon_de_la_Vieja_National_Butterfly.jpg — (140.65к)

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26.06.2008 23:25, Zhuk

Nobody's fathead!

29.06.2008 11:59, RippeR

mega!

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