Peruvian Amazon

[moloch]

Prola Beauty (Panacea prola) -- This butterfly was incredible. The outer lower wing was red but it always landed like this and I was not able to photograph the undersurface. It seemed to be curious and it would hover and even briefly land on us.





One night while searching for reptiles, we found this morpho asleep on leaves of a tree that was overhanging a stream. This species had half-half upper wings that were about equal parts turquoise and black.




Tropical Buckeye (Junoniae varete) -- Here are three individuals that illustrate variability in pattern and colour





Dirce Beauty (Colobura dirce) -- I love the disruptive pattern on the outer wings. The butterfly landed on a vine and slowly approached the other (I think some sort of Satyrinae). It touched it with its feet and tongue before sipping something on the surface of the plant.

[moloch]

I saw a few odd caterpillars on the trip.

Flannel Moth (Megalopyge sp):



Shag-carpet Caterpillar (Tarchon felderi):






These roadside trees had huge leaves:



... interesting flowers. The second one was a nice passion flower.




I found several of these amazing parasol-like fungi:

[moloch]

Strange flower and a giant armoured millipede:



... incredible Wax-tailed Hopper followed by a relative that seemed to lack the waxy extrusions:





Whip-scorpions were again common at night:







Although not dazzling like the Dendrobates, I still liked the colour pattern of these Spotted-thighed Poison Frog (Epipedobates femoralis).

[Peacock Royal]

David, thanks for sharing all these wonderful pictures and species here.

[moloch]

Thanks, Federick.


Scarlet Peacock



I hope that you all have enjoyed the post. Peru is a fantastic destination. After seeing the quality of photos in your posts on this forum, I hope that you head to Peru and take photos of the South American species. I would love to see such a report!


I am starting a new thread in the "... other critters" forum for those of you who like the following animals.




Finally, I enjoyed photos of those of you who participated in the Endau Rompin trip last year. It is nice to be able to put faces to the names. Here is a shot of me (left) and my friends Ed (centre) and Ted (right). When we were young in the '70s, we used to explore California, Arizona and then the tropics of Mexico together. Both guys have visited me here in Australia and Ted came over for a reptile photography trip through the deserts of Western Australia a few years ago. Now, my friends have retired so we will travel more often. Our next trip will be to Malaysia in another year.




Regards,
David

[Glorious Begum]

Do I need to go there ? You had covered it all for us.

Thank you for these wonderful photos, in fact I should put it as this trip.

[orionmystery]

Wonderful shots of all the flora and fauna of Peruvian Amazon, David. You make us wanna jump on the next flight to go there