Tag Archive for: South America

The parasite’s parasite: everyone has a bad day

Among the most astonishing things about the rainforests is that in your entire life, even living inside one of them, you will not be able to witness every phenomenon of this immense “box” of marvels. Maybe a lot of them, maybe “almost” everything, but not all.

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A night into the forest

At Wayqecha Biological Station my photography group followed a researcher to look for frogs and other smaller creatures in the steep slopes of the Peruvian cloud forest which, for the sake of justice, wasn’t cloudy at all that night!

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A tiny hanging beauty: Erycina glossomystax

An amazing miniature orchid Erycina glossomystax on top of a leaf into the Villa Carmen Biological Station (Peru), managed by ACCA.

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Ant save the queen: meet the bullet ant’s queen

No jokes, this is just a very short post that will be followed by other ones soon. I’m just back from a long month in Peru, where I also found a beautiful super giant queen of the bullet ant (Paraponera clavata).

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Scratchy Andes

While at Wayqecha Biological Station on the Andes I photographed this Simulium (Psilopelmia) bicoloratum, also called “that damned sons of a b..ch”, sucking my own blood with permission.

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Tag Archive for: South America