Colombia trip photos

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As promised, here's part one of the photos from my trip to Colombia. We didn't make it to any of the national parks or the Cali Zoo, but we did get to see Professor Adolfo Amezquita's collection at the Universidad de Los Andes, as well as staying in a villa in the mountains for three days. I'm waiting on more pictures from my aunt, but here's what I have right now:

Got broms?



Random beetle larva in a brom.... the metallic bronze doesn't show well from the cell phone camera










jet black isopod

Next few pics are for the orchid peeps

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The large tree in the top middle was like a hummingbird gas station... they were EVERYWHERE.


spider literally the size of a spread open hand... i mean, the thing's eyes were big enough to reflect the flash.......

Weird caterpillars that came out at night and would run from the flashlight
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I noticed the "spit" hanging next to the butterfly, and remembering my middle school field studies in bio class, I looked through it with a twig and found some tropical spittlebug

These things were cool, out of curiosity I blew on them and they stuck out a Y-shaped appendage and started dripping brown juice.

[fleshfrombone]

Sweet pics! I'm particularly interested in the orchids.

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Tads deposited in a small stream

Not sure what this was but it reminded me of the Thai fruit "Durien"


It's amazing how many plants grow straight off of rocks, some of them didn't even seem like epiphytes.

This was growing out of a rock too.

Some begonia

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Originally Posted by fleshfrombone

Sweet pics! I'm particularly interested in the orchids.

Look at those again, I added two more just a minute ago. Give me a sec and I'll upload the frog pics as well.

[billschwinn]

Those caterpillars sound like they were using the snake tongue act like the Swallowtail Butterfly larvae in the US.The swallowtails also emit a nasty smell when they do their act.

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Pep?




Found this guy on an orchid stalk, never seen one with purple leg before



Found this in our bedroom the first night:


And as promised, the froc pics.................
Sylvatica





Ranitomeya "bombetes"

Lehmanni

Histrionica



2/3's of the collection


Part of the Andean Ranitomeya hybrid study-

Aurotenia


Bicolor/Terribilis for the Phyllobates hybridization color study




Part of Professor Amezquita's private collection:


I'll update when I can get ahold of my aunt's pictures, she had some really good ones. Hope you all enjoyed.

[fleshfrombone]

Jesus I'm drooling. That's really awesome. Thank you for sharing this.

Originally Posted by gtclipse01

Look at those again, I added two more just a minute ago. Give me a sec and I'll upload the frog pics as well.

[markpulawski]

Actually the first frogs are Histo's, not Sylvaticus, looks like Bullseye and the lighter morph used to be called something (camel??)else but i can't remember (they are the most sensitive of all Histo morphs). Those chocolate Aurotaenia's are unlike anything I have ever seen before, very nice. Bombete's definately a HOLY GRAIL SPECIES.
Great pics overall, moisture and bugs sure do go together....enough to suck the life out of you.

[poison beauties]

Very nice pic of a bullseye histo.

Michael