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There are many exotic-looking insect species that you can immediately
recognize.
Although they use camouflage, Guanacaste walking stick insects are
easily spotted at night on low shrubs.
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The three inch rhinoceros beetle has an unmistakable long, upward
curving horn on its head.
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| Mimicry
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Some brightly colored insects even double themselves up at the base of
leafstalks, so as to mimic or
resemble flowerbuds, and thus deceive other insects on which they prey.
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Education
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Literature
& eBooks
Children's Classic Literature by Twain, Bronte, Fitzgerald, Hawthorne,
Thoreau and more.
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Unique Rainforest Bugs
The long history of the rainforest has enabled countless butterflies, moths, ants,
termites, wasps, bees, and other unique tropical insects to evolve in
astounding
profusion. There are many thousands of ant species alone. The insect
biodiversity in Corcovado National
Park includes at least 220 species of breeding butterflies, plus others
that are
migratory, simply passing through.
And there are so many species of beetles and grasshoppers that no one
knows
the true numbers. Many, many thousands of creeping, crawling, flying,
and
buzzing insect species still await identification. §
In Guanacaste, hundreds of species of bees, moth larvae, and tiger
beetles
make an appearance in the early dry season. When the first rains come,
lightbulbs
are often deluged with adult moths, beetles, and other insects newly
emerged
from their pupae. That's the time, too, that many species of butterfly
migrate
from the deciduous lowland forests to highland sites. §
| Camouflage for Insect Predators and
Defense |
Unique Caterpillar
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Leaf Insect
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Many insect species are too small to see. For example, the hummingbird
flower mite is so small it can hitch rides from
flower to flower inside the nostrils of hummingbirds. Other insects you
can
detect by their sound. Male wood crickets produce a very loud
noise by rubbing together the overlapping edges of their wing cases. §
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