Butterflies and other insects of Peru

Iquitos. Part 3.


Astraptes fulgerator


Left Urbanus procne


all sorts of fancy thickheads


one more. Can someone tell me the type?

This post was edited by Alexey Yakovlev - 24.03.2011 18: 56

Iquitos. Part 4.


Philaethria dido Such a green pigment in collections quickly fades


Heliconius antiochus


Heliconius erato lattivita-local form


Forbestra olivencia olivencia


Hypoleria aureliana


Oleria gunilla lota

This post was edited by Alexey Yakovlev - 16.01.2010 23: 55

What PHOTOS!!!! Looking at this in September, when the season ended, is excruciatingly painful......... I WANT TO GO TO TINGO MARIA))))))

hachu in the feast

hachu in the feast

I also already want

Everyone wants

Everyone wants to    

But seriously, all the land in selva is bought up for a song by foreigners from Canada, the USA and Europe. They build lodges for tourists or create nature reserves. Ecotourism is now very profitable, and given the systematic and imminent destruction of the Amazon for banana plantations and just for wood, the success of this business is guaranteed for centuries. That's where to invest!

But seriously, all the land in selva is bought up for a song by foreigners from Canada, the USA and Europe. They build lodges for tourists or create nature reserves. Ecotourism is now very profitable, and given the systematic and imminent destruction of the Amazon for banana plantations and just for wood, the success of this business is guaranteed for centuries. That's where to invest!

Duc, it would be something to invest!

Duc, it would be something to invest!

Duc, I tell you-a spear there is a land standing in the jungle!!! On our one-bedroom apartment in the style of Khrushchev's barAcco, you can buy several hectares and build a bungalow! And if the hut is inherited from the old people (and as is often the case, it seems to be given to anyone), then it is necessary to sell the surplus urgently and invest in an entomological paradise there. And yourself for profit/joy and nature for good.

Iquitos. Part 5.

HELP US HERE!


Heliopetes sp. The thick head is like this


Mazia amazonica ??


Taygetis (mermeria?) I flew to the light

Raznousye:


Eacles sp.


Arsenura armida


Therinia aff. lactucina


Therinia cf. buckleyi


Something from the Mimallonidae


And this is not a butterfly at all, it's Poikilloptera sp. (Flatidae), it looks like


Lonimia sp. Leaf by leaf! It's her caterpillars that are deadly poisonous!


Ceroctena amynta (Noctuidae) mimics rot on the leaves of heliconias and bananas


Chetone histrio-simulator


Ixylasia pyroproctis ???


caterpillar for a snack

This post was edited by Alexey Yakovlev - 17.01.2010 00: 54

mda, I can already roughly see where I'll spend my remaining time )

To the point!All your life you will save, you will come and spend the rest of your life there because you can't earn a return ticket there

  Iquitos. Part 5.

HELP US HERE!

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Leptophobia sp.

This is not Leptophobia, but a fathead, apparently Heliopetes sp. (kind of, of course, I don't know).

To the point!All your life you will save, you will come and spend the rest of your life there because you can't earn a return ticket there

We have such a butterfly lover that he almost got stuck in this Peru recently. I went to the village with 2 local guides, but on the first morning I woke up alone without luggage, money, documents and maps. For a long time he wandered through the Amazon, until he came across a local Indian settlement. He went through all the initiation rituals there and lived with the natives for six months, until a white gringo came to collect the coca crop. Our amateur had nothing better to do and on his second hobby made stuffed birds, which interested the white gringo. The man paid him a little money for the stuffed animals and gave him a ride to civilization. A friend returned to his homeland with a suitcase of butterflies and beetles. And his family had long since buried him... A real case, by the way, and relatively recent...

If it is not too much trouble for the author,I would like to highlight the financial side of the trip from Russia.I know from my own Palestine, but it would be interesting to learn from Russia.I consider a trip to Tingo Maria as an alternative option for the next year.And you will have to take off from Russia.

If it is not too much trouble for the author,I would like to highlight the financial side of the trip from Russia.I know from my own Palestine, but it would be interesting to learn from Russia.I consider a trip to Tingo Maria as an alternative option for the next year.And you will have to take off from Russia.

So this means that you need to buy tickets in advance, because Japanese and German pensioners, driven by Alzheimer's dromomania, buy all their tickets in May (this is if you plan, like me, for August, i.e. for the dry season). I ordered tickets last March and even then they cost 1249 Euros(the cheapest, KLM via Amsterdam). Iberia was in the same limits, but already sold out (you could get on the waiting list). In May, yuilets were already 30% higher! There are no charters there, you know.

Tingo Maria-a fairy tale for entomologists.
Nuances:
- only one decent hotel ($60-65 per day), the rest - hostels ($10 each).
- NO ONE speaks English (guides speak poorly due to isolation). They look at the whites there with undisguised curiosity and everyone tries to see your eyes, which are not as sharp as everyone else's
- you need to stock up on a map and take a tuk-tuk to the right place (to any point costs no more than 7-10 sols, 1 sol= 30 cents approximately)
- food in local establishments is indecently cheap, especially the abundance of juices (drink more local ones, such as cocoons, passion fruit, carambola, fruit of the aguaje palm, guanabana, etc.). Local cooking may not be to your liking, but the hotel perfectly prepares fish, chicken fillet, etc. (although it is already more expensive)
- you can catch butterflies everywhere without hindrance, including the territory of the National Park.However, local residents may try to cheat (they will say that this is their territory and you need to pay)
- you need to catch in different areas, no matter how bread-filled the area originally chosen may seem. Believe me, there are a lot of insects everywhere and everywhere they are different!!!
- farmers sell beetles and butterflies in abundance, which they did not have time to send to dealers (Ivan Caligali in Satipo or Damas in TM). Bargain harder! But really interesting butterflies are sold only by local figures (there are females of any morpho, except aurora, of course!). At Damas, however, it is better not to shine, because he will start breeding for the legalization of your fees at customs (for 500-1000 bucks!!!).
- there are no mosquitoes, no mosquitoes, no ticks, no diseases associated with them. Repellent is practically not needed here this season. If you are prone to sweating, you will be swarmed by sweat bees and with them gadflies, horseflies and wasps. Gadflies can easily catch miasma, so change your shirt every day!!!

If you need more details, please write to your personal account.

Iquitos. Part 6.

From 11 to 13, clusters of sailboats (Protesilaus spp., Eurytides ssp., Heraclides spp., elegant Protographium thyastes), egg yolks and whiteflies form on the banks. Immediately, Julia, dido, eights, urania and many others are stuck, but these are no longer crowded.


here they are crowded (Protesilaus sp. and Eurytides dolicaon)


Unforgettable feeling when you cover a dozen gorgeous yolks or sailboats at once!!!

This post was edited by Alexey Yakovlev - 05.09.2008 00: 28

And there will still be pictures of hawk moth....or is the group not a profile group?

And there will still be pictures of hawk moth....or is the group not a profile group?

Not a profile page, actually. I took a couple of beautiful photos from the walls, but I didn't take them...

How many bags did you have to prepare for such an expedition? Or is it better to take mattresses in such cases?

"You maniac Yakovlev! "I was just strangled by a toad!" - I love being homeless!
- My fellow countryman, a familiar entomologist + cactus grower (a very secretive person) flew to Peru 8 years ago from Moscow on December 25. I crossed the Andes at an altitude of 4.5 km and rafted down the river.
He told me that he lit a cigarette after quitting a few years ago, when he saw, coming out of the fog, an illuminated slope covered with all sorts of flowering cacti! Or a swirl of dancing butterflies near a stream! Or a black-and-white, as he put it, "Russian goat", who climbed into the fork of the branches of a tree prickly pear and, not being afraid of glochidia, ate its fruits! Or a llama spit at a friendly pat on the withers! Or "our houseplants" growing in the streets of Lima in the form of trees! Or very similar to "our" high-altitude species of nymphalids and whiteflies! Or perspiration, unlike the Indian guides! Or giant black wasps!... His knowledge of Spanish helped him a lot...- In short , it's better to see it once... Don't forget to write it down as a moralizing lesson for posterity, Yakovlev! "Well done! - Great!

How many bags did you have to prepare for such an expedition? Or is it better to take mattresses in such cases?

We caught about a thousand butterflies. Small two in a bag. The mattresses were all gone at once. Main Thing (Sic!!!) take with you some kind of hair dryer to dry your hair (on a small fan). In the Amazon, everything rots very quickly and absolutely nothing dries even in the sun!

"You maniac Yakovlev! "I was just strangled by a toad!" - I love being homeless!
....Don't forget to write it down as a moralizing lesson for posterity, Yakovlev! "Well done! - Great!

Thanks! Especially homeless was not allowed to companion-professor, and so yes, I love sometimes ! Nature is still there for 20-30 years somewhere, so we need to hurry...

I TURN TO TINGO MARIA

This place is notable for the fact that it is located in the mountains, but the air currents make their way here only from the Amazon. Therefore, in the mountains, rain (or rather cloud) forests predominate here. Whatever the hill - new biotopes! The variety of insects is amazing on the first day!

A large national park is located near the town. According to laws that I don't understand, local peasants are allowed to seize territories right in the national park. As a result, the centuries-old rainforest is cut down, everything is cut down by flames and bananas, cassava and corn are planted. Amazon has 40-50 years left, I think


At the foot of the mountains and along the rivers there are many tree ferns-cyates, plants from the melastomaceae family and heliconias (red flower in the center)


If you get up from 10 am in the middle of a mountain river, you can catch a bunch of butterflies, including morpho


Morning rays barely make their way to the forest waterfall


These are the scenes in the nat.they gave me fits of misanthropy

This post was edited by Alexey Yakovlev - 15.09.2008 01: 16

Tingo-Maria. Part 1.

Photo session on the bank of a mountain river. It was very sunny, but it was still better than the eternal gloom of the rainforest for the pictures. By midday, the beach was swarming with various butterflies. Here I also missed the female androgeos


Here on this spot of the shore, all the following pictures were taken from 11 to 12: 30 (collectible butterflies were caught outside of photocasting )


Aethilla eleusina



Pyrrhopyge sp.


Antigonus erosus (male)


Antigonus nearchus


Pellicia costimacula


Epargyreus sp.


dysmorphia Lieinix nemesis



Gorgopas chlorocephala in the lower image on the right.


Gorgopas trochilus


Jemadia hewitsonii


Anteos menippe


Pieriballia viardi


We suck the moisture and pee


Eurema xantochlora


Some big-nosed fathead. They landed in formation by noon.


Marpesia zerynthia dentigera


Marpesia sp.


Marpesia berania


Parides neophilus It is difficult to find a whole parides in nature, but this one had just hatched and was sitting on a blade of grass on the shore


Rhetus periander

This post was edited by Alexey Yakovlev - 24.03.2011 17: 47

------------!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

  ------------!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Aha, the same emotions Tropical fatheads are a megarespectum!

I'm choking with delight!!!! But I beg you not to feel sorry for us, and, if possible, make the respite between posting your luxurious pictures shorter. Finish to the end!

I'm choking with delight!!!! But I beg you not to feel sorry for us, and, if possible, make the respite between posting your luxurious pictures shorter. Finish to the end!

Friends! I'm just getting started! )) But sometimes I also need to work for my daily bread (yes, a corn tortilla in the same Peru), and analyzing photos, determining at least up to the genus and uploading them to molbiol takes a lot of time! Have mercy!

While watching the photos, the same masochistic thoughts as Dmitrich were overcome, and when he read the post of our hero, he turned into a sadist: "Alexey, there is no mercy for you, spread everything all at once. There will be no mercy. "

  Tingo-Maria. Part 1.


some nosey girl

Hardly nosey. Look at your feet - too many legs. And the antennas are not the right ones. IMHO, a fathead from Pyrginae with a slope under the nose...

IT'S JUST CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!)))) The photos are great!!!!

Tingo-Maria. Part 2.

In Tingo Maria, we encountered an abundance of morpho. In some places, they flew in droves, somewhere with an interval of 10-20 seconds to 5-10 minutes. Different types. Peasant boys with nets on long sticks spend hours hunting Morpho rhetenor helena. They fly en masse in August. deidamia, M. helenor, M. menelaus. Adonis was caught, but not much. For the most part, the butterflies were battered and completely knocked out, so that collectible specimens always caused a storm of emotions. Baits were not used, because they were already flying in herds.


Morpho achilles


Morpho deidamia


Morpho deidamia


Morpho didius


Morpho helenor

This post was edited by Alexey Yakovlev - 15.09.2008 22: 29

Everything, Peru is the # 1 dream!!!!!!!!11111adinadinadine

This post was edited by RippeR - 09/15/2008 22: 49

Tingo-Maria. Part 3.


Anteros carausius - tiny furry-legged charm


Crocozona sp.


Amarynthis meneria


Ancyluris aff. aulestes


Ancyluris meliboeus?


Ancyluris sp. from both sides


Melanis smithiae


Siseme neurodes


Callicore aff. hystaspes


Caligo illioneus

This post was edited by Alexey Yakovlev - 24.03.2011 16: 18

It really does look like some Hesperian, but this is what it looks like!

What I don't know, I don't know...

Nothing from Pyrginae fits...

Well, there are a lot of thickheads... And what do you use to identify others?

This post was edited by Alexey Yakovlev - 15.09.2008 23: 16

Anteros!!! it's just crazy!!SUCH A HUT!!!
Ah here is ter niusu nifiga

This post was edited by Zhuk-15.09.2008 23: 16

Anteros!!! it's just crazy!!SUCH A HUT!!!          

Yes, I don't want to catch such a beauty (I'm afraid to crush it). Except in a bottle of ether...

What I don't know, I don't know...
Well, there are a lot of thickheads... And what do you use to identify others?

I look at the web, there is a little literature, but I don't have a good guide to tropical thickheads
P.S.: you have a wonderful site!