[Pictures] Trip In French Guyana

[Vulcain]

Hi all,

I decided to share with you, my trip with a friend, who is a breeder too, in French Guyana (we are french, so it's easy to speak there ^^)

We stayed there two weeks, the trip was very rewarding we saw many insects, especially butterflies, but also some beetles, praying mantis, and Orthoptera.

Just take 10 minuts to look this "reportage" ;-)

Ialyssus tuberculatus, he came during the dinner, in the restaurant hut, attracted by light

Pictures taken during the hunts by night :

Titanacris violaceus male,

Male of the familly of Vatinae (Phyllovates ?), During the trip we saw 3-4 males of this specie.

Copiopteryx

Hum it's hard, only 10 pictures per post ?

 

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Wasp, suspicion there are a lot of species, more or less large, yellow, white, red, and they hurt (bite each with Adrien, my friend), but the pain fades quickly.

Many cicadas in sheet, you'll see in a video ... we saw 3 or 4 species

Sphynx

Rutelidae, they mated in sheet

Vatinae male, gender Vates surely, we will have seen a couple of bucks on the stay of this species, and a female quite damaged in the wings came to sheet, I nearly crushed to the ground, unfortunately she died yesterday home, probably of old age, too bad it did not laid. The gender Vatinae was very present

An overview of the place of trapping night with me on the picture ^^

 

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Grasshopper wasp (imitating a pepsi) male. It seems the female is extremely rare and turquoise!

Tropidacris dux

Beautiful lizard, very present on the trunks during the day, which runs very fast. This one, I caught on a fallen trunk, at night, while he was sleep ^^

Grasshopper wasp

longhorn, Lamiinae

 

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Sphynx

Katydid, we had to cross from 40 to 50 species of Orthoptera (grasshoppers / locusts / crickets) with twenty species of them to the sheet. Unfortunately it's like the praying mantis, 98% of males in the sheet. But the last day, we found a female of the species pictured below, really beautiful, even bigger, more robust, I brought him, but she died two days later, the stress ... in fact 80% of grasshoppers from the sheet die within hours of their arrival, they support very badly to be taken in the hands, or other insects rise above their ... Pity really ... That may be why there are few livestock in Orthoptera

Two different species

 

[Vulcain]

Mantispida we saw about 6-8, 1 or 2 on average per night hunts

Coelosis biloba, Dynastidae, We brought two males and 4 females !

Longhorn Phaedinus tricolor, very rare, apparently there are some twenty in collections ...

 

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Megasoma actaeon, Dynastidae, female

Katydid :

Male Hymenopodidae a cloak belonging to the views of his eyes, it was really beautiful, but no female found. Unfortunately we found three males, but they would die on the sheet due to stress ...

Wasp cut, and yes when there was too much cut it with scissors !

 

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Mole cricket, smaller than in France, they fly very well!

Yet another species of Katydid with a serrated pink chest (male)

Male butterfly that thinks I'm his partner Eacles imperialis cacicus :

Eacles imperialis cacicus, female

 

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Tithrone roseipennis ? Very beautifull

Fulgore:

Copiopteryx :

Beautifull small male

Proscopia scabra

 

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Here are some pictures of the camp (entry only) and around :

With me

Me !

Even me, in fact we understand that it's the camera is at my friend ^^

Photos of a stroll near the camp:

 

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Angela sp female nymphs

Mosquito bites on the arm of my friend, you should know that Kaw (where we were), there are marshes and a lot of mosquitoes.

But it was not a problem for me, they went only on the arm of him ^^

Pictures of th camp ! :

Our Hut

The camp

A tree that I find beautiful :

 

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Solar Panels

An other hut

Dinner hut

Collections for visitors

Hut WC :

 

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Arlequin

And agin my tree :-D

 

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Now, videos :

(Music: Afrojack et Eva simons - Take Over Control (Extended mix))

I hope you enjoy with this topic ;-)

Best regards,

Paul

Ps: someone can me say how you make appear videos in the post ? :$

 

[twolfe]

Wow! What a variety of neat insects. I love the silk moths. There's one I've never seen images of before. And those last two mantis you found are really cute.

That's a lot of mosquito bites on your friend's arm. Ouch!

 

[sporeworld]

I was seething with jealously, until I saw the mosquito bites. Now I'm just kind of bubbling with jealousy. Ha!

Stunning pictures - what an adventure!

Congratulations!

 

[Vulcain]

In fact we have more species of mantis, but i'm waiting hatch before to show you because if not, I would be disgusted ^^

Just our most beautiful : (and 2 ooths )

Acanthops erosula (I think but I'm waiting this week-end that Roger Roy identify )

Best regards,

Paul

 

[minard734]

NICE PICS MAN!!!

 

[jrh3]

very awesome

 

[patrickfraser]

One of these days...One of these days...Looks like an amazing adventure. Thanks for sharing your magnificent finds