Butterflies and other insects of Peru

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Алексей Яковлев, 31.08.2008 22:45

I returned from Peru and started sorting out 9 GB of photos. I photographed mainly plants, but it is impossible to visit Peru and not take a picture of a single butterfly. True, my companion had the goal of catching them, and I also wielded a net. So I'm sorry that I didn't get enough photos. In addition, many butterflies do not sit down to pose at all. Others are so valuable that I would have been lynched by a comrade for any delay in taking photos.

You can talk about Peru indefinitely - so great is the diversity of its biotopes, isolated both by altitude and climate. Literally on one mountain, you can get around a dozen bio-communities that have nothing in common in half a day! There are, of course, pan-Peruvian species, but you also come across narrow-range endemics.

If anyone is also interested in tops, check out my posts from nerds. I will post all other animals and medical aspects of my stay in Peru on my blog until winter

There were a lot of butterflies, and this is in the " dry " (August) season! What will happen in September, we can only guess!!!

Butterflies were caught in this way, with a net, and on salt washings along the banks of rivers, and on traps (fermented fruits). They did not catch only at the light, because there was originally no such goal.

We visited 3 places in the Amazon-the Tambopata nature reserve in the south-east, the area 2 hours from Iquitos by boat on the Amazon (this is already the north) and Tingo Maria in the central part of the country, where the Andes already begin, but the mountains to the peaks are covered with cloud forests.

I will post pictures as I analyze them. Since I am not an expert, and my friend will determine the fees only by spring, please do not judge strictly in case of incorrect definition of species (however, I will be grateful for corrections).

All together we crush lyba :
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your humble servant (selva in the district of Iquitos)
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at an altitude of 3800 m (Cuzco district)

early in the morning in the Andes frost, but already at 10 heat and a lot of butterflies!
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The ancients in the Nazca Desert also loved arthropods (airplane shot)

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31.08.2008 23:23, Алексей Яковлев

So, let's go!

I'll start with Tambopata. This river in southeastern Peru flows through 4 well-defined bioclimatic zones, from humid temperature to humid tropical.

Tambopat is terribly wet, doesn't dry a damn thing, but it's relatively safe in terms of infections (no malaria, no yellow fever, no leishmania), but there are chiggers - small-boned red-bodied mites whose larvae deftly penetrate the pores of sneakers and socks and bite your feet so that it's scary to look at them later. At the same time, bites itch for another month. There are practically no mosquitoes there, there are not many mosquitoes (but the repellent still does not hurt).

You can live coolly right on the territory of the reserve in lodges with solar panels (220 there, clear-red, will not be, but hot water and dim light at night are provided), in addition-fresh air and comfort and feed for slaughter (and most importantly, very healthy food with an abundance of local fruits)!

However, I also had to live in a tent on such a bank (here the Malinovsky River flows into Tambopata).
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And here I am, holding a net in one hand and a fallen cecropia leaf in the other. The lord of the selva is downright amazing.

This is pepino (Solanum muricatum). It turned out that this is the best place to attract morpho! Pepino has the taste of melon, although it belongs to the solanaceae. For more success, soak in any inexpensive wine. On bynany morfo so were not conducted.
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Well, now let's go bybochki:

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Adelpha malea aethalia

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Amarynthis meneria

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Anartia amathea

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Callicore astarte on manure

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Dryadula phaetusa

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31.08.2008 23:37, Алексей Яковлев

Butterflies of the Tambopata Nature Reserve. Part 2.

From Haeterini meet:

one type of Cithaerias:

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Cithaerias pireta tambopata

one Haetera species:

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Haetera piera ssp.

3 types of Pierella:

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Pierella hortona albofasciata

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Pierella lamia chalybaea almost without pattern

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Pierella lena brasiliensis immediately on the leaves and you will not notice, especially such a flying one.

All butterflies of this group are strictly territorial, flying back and forth in one area along a path, or in a place cleared in the forest. If you left for the first time, you need to return in 2 minutes - it will again sit in the same place. They are caught from 8: 00 to 14: 00. Cyterias are relatively easy to spot by their crimson-pink spots, but the hetaera is easily lost among the fallen foliage.

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01.09.2008 13:54, Алексей Яковлев

Any of them!!!! Post photos of everyone you have!!! Please!!!!

Bugs in Peru, as you can guess, are sooo many, but not all of them are in a hurry for the photo

I still took a few photos, maybe when I sort it out, I'll post it.
I was particularly impressed by the beetle collection in Tingo Maria, where they are professionally trained. The ubiquitous Japanese come there and buy everything!!! I even saw collections of staphylins prepared for sale (and who needs these dozens of species of apparently indistinguishable insects, except for the Japanese!

). For some endemic rhinos, they ask for 500-600 pupaars. They are caught by local peasants (only the lazy ones are not in business

), and you can also buy them for a song if you have a business acumen (for 100 bucks they will catch all living things with the whole family for a month (an average of 7-10 people)).

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02.09.2008 2:26, Алексей Яковлев

We move on to the Iquitos area. Amazon itself has already gone here. The humidity is killer!!! Linen does not dry at all, and if you wash it and hang it out in the sun - on the 3rd day it just goes bad (everyone smells like that). The only way is to dry it on yourself (besides, it's dangerous to hang it out in terms of miasma-who doesn't know, read here
Were bitten by wasps, which always lurk among harmless sweat bees, spiders, I personally suffered from a kiss bug (still a spot under my eye). There are almost no mosquitoes, there are few mosquitoes.

The abundance of exotic fruits greatly brightens up your life. Piranhas and catfish fishing are also available at your leisure.

I would like to express my special gratitude to the friendly guys from the neighboring villages of Freddy and Limber.

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