This is great to know! Im trying to learn japanese

I thought it might be! But Im not confident enough in my plants to declare haha

A zen moment - forest light passing through a reed

A brown insect with an enlarged, helmet-like pronotum edged in bright red and clear wings with the bottom edge bright red and a blue patch near the head. The insect is standing on a leaf.

Super snazzy treehopper found in a shrubby patch along a roadside near a small stream. Check out the red racing stripes!
(Metcalfiella erecta)
Intag Refugio, Ecuador

I need serious toes to hang on with

This frog and I feel the same about the state of the world.

EL Refugio, Intag, Ecuador

Thanks! My nail lady is fire

He looks even stupider from this angle

A very chonky pale green caterpillar with aqua blue eye spots and an orange tail that curls downward. It is standing on a leaf on the mossy ground with a waterfall in the background.

When your snake mimic outfit ends up looking like a cartoon instead.

This funky friend is a Sphinx Moth caterpillar found by @scibugs.bsky.social today.
(Xylophanes crotonis) Intag Refugio, Ecuador

Front part of a hawk moth caterpillar. Looks like he has two turqoise googly eyes.

Hawk moth caterpillar. He's a super pastel green color with two turqoise googly eye looking spots near hua head and a orange cheeto for a horn tail

Who's gonna tell him his mimicry is ... kinda off ...?

Hawk moth
El Refugio, Intag, Ecuador

Graphic novel little coming showing the Zygothrica flies done in watercolor. First frame a few loosely drawn flies with a quote bubble "GET OFF MY FUNGUS! THERE'S NOT "MUSHROOM" FOR YOU!" 2nd panel is a closeup of the fly with triangle eyes with a black box behind him. It says "*STARE*" The third panel is loosely drawn. A female fly is shown thinking "Fight! FIGHT!" A couple of males are shown headbutting with a large POW and BAM callout on top a la Old batman comic style

Here's the scene in my nature journal

Samsung s23 ultra

He's a vibe.

An elongated beetle with metallic green head and pronotum, bright pink elytra, and a black abdomen. It is standing among yellowish-white mushrooms.

There were also rove beetles running around swiping fly larvae. It was a whole tiny ecosystem on one log. Amazing.
(Chroaptomus sp.) #invert
Intag Refugio, Ecuador

Me too honestly

No ... Just black scavenger flies (x.x)
Maybe @jencross.bsky.social got a photo of them that we can use for ID

It's Def a weevil but Im not sure which one

🤣🤣

Theyre a vibe for sure

Here they are (Zygothrica sp) going at it to defend their mushroom kingdom.

El Refugio, Intag, Ecuador

These guys were so cool. And they seem to only come out in the afternoon around 1200pm. We passed by earlier in the morning two days in a row and they weren't there

A photo showing the screen of a phone with a fly in the frame and the mushrooms in the background on a mossy log. The mushrooms are pale yellow and have tiny brown flecks on them that are the flies.

Just to give you a sense of how tiny these guys are here is @scibugs.bsky.social getting some video. If you zoom in the tiny flecks on the mushrooms are the flies.

An elongated insect with a blue metallic head and pronotum, shiny pink elytra, and a black abdomen. It is standing among fronds of moss.

When you're rockin' metallic blue with a shiny pink backpack.

We found a few of these beautiful rove beetles in a mossy area on the trail today. Most rove beetles are predators of insects and other invertebrates living on the forest floor.
(Phanolinus sp.?) #invert
Intag Refugio, Ecuador

She might have actually

This was shot on my phone =)

A hand with a large dark brown moth next to it. The moth is as large as the hand. The hand also has a large graphically patterned hawk moth on it

Ill take a fistful of moth plz
Hawk moth left. Black witch right

El refugio, Intag, Ecuador

He had all 6 legs. They're just tucked away. The back ones are angled away from the camera

It is! Compsus I believe is the genus.

A opalescent weevil. Body is a seafood green color with an orange pinky head. Its looking at the camera

Well this has taken off
I believe it's the genus Compsus

Shot st El Refugio in Intag, Ecuador

I do bug tours if you wanna romp around the forest and find your own glitter weevil

He's a fashion icon