I especially like the newly moulted lynx spider, well done.

Thanks Mark and grgh, much appreciated.

Army ants (Eciton sp.) and a parasitic army ant-mimicking silverfish (Trichaletura manni). As many as 357 species have been associated with army ants, either as parasites or commensals. Some, like this obligate parasitic silverfish live within the colony itself and move with it: https://live.staticf...

Thanks Mark, Mike and Saul, much appreciated. Mike - For the fly, frog, mosquito and weevil I used the Canon Mpe and for the rest I used a 1.4xTC with 12mm extension tube on a Canon 100mm f/2.8L. The latter gives increased mag. and good compression of subject for background bokeh/details. For lighti...

A pair of mating leaf-mimicking katydids (Typophyllum sp.) melt into the surrounding leaf litter: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49406495426_d4f6ec2c41_b.jpg Though glass frogs are not unknown from the lowland Amazonian rainforest, they are more common in the cloud forest streams of higher alti...

Thanks for the kind words and comments Mark, Lou and Smokedaddy.

Caterpillars obliviously feeding at night: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49324029312_29f311cd3e_b.jpg A cone-headed katydid peers over a leaf, perhaps drawn by the acoustic signature of the caterpillars' feeding: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49324128997_7677bb289e_b.jpg Whilst the other...

Thanks Chris and Rik. I'll try to integrate any non-macros more into the narrative arc and limit them to 2 per set, and keep them for the final images.

Thanks Lou, Mark and Bob, much appreciated. Bob- Fulgoridae exhibit paurometabolis growth, which is say that there is no dramatic transformation from egg to larva to pupa and then adult. The eggs hatch into nymph which have the overall morphological characteristics of the adults which are gradually ...

Thanks Rik and Troels.

Of course Rik, I like the balance that they provide, especially for people for whom the tropics are inaccessible, but I'm happy to confine the sets to macro only as well, as that is what the forum is all about.

A false coral snake (Oxyrhopus sp.) bears aposematic colours to fool predators into thinking that it possesses a potent neurotoxic venom, like the true coral snakes (Micrurus sp.): https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49307130332_84ddf2fedc_b.jpg Ant harvesting a slime mold: https://live.staticflickr...

A camera trap captures a Rufous motmot (Baryphthengus martii) perching at the mouth of its burrow: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49285837453_30eed3534f_b.jpg Another camera trap photo, this time of a collared peccary (Peccari tayasu) skirting a former wallow which has flooded with the rains. W...

Butterflies and moths are prized for their beauty. Their aesthetic, ironically, elevates them beyond the lowly physical world inhabited by those which creep and crawl and onto a different plane, that of the ideal. Idylls of beauty, whose brief and beautiful lives evoke a romanticism straight out of ...

Thanks for the kind words Chris, I'll have to be extra conscious now to up my game and not disappoint!

Turning over a new leaf...the wet season marks a distinct change in the seasons, as many trees and flowers fruit, and animals breed in response to the abundance of food: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49084229393_086abc74a7_b.jpg Insects too, like these colourful, aptly named rainbow katydids (...