Another fascinating part of field herping, along with all the other natural wonders we encounter, is the invertebrates! This forum is dedicated to both field and captive invertebrates.
So here is a small selection of invertebrate images I have accumulated over the past year and a half or so. I was lucky to work in Borneo and then immediately after that worked on a project in Ecuador, all the photos are from those 2 places. Each photo has a more detailed description if you follow the link to flickr. But I'm happy to answer any additional questions about any of the images if anyone has any. Hope you enjoy and find atleast some of the material interesting.
Infamous terrestrial leeches, on some days I'd get 100s of these on me. Easy to see why, brush against this leaf and thats 3 already. Three's Company by Anton, on Flickr
Great photos, you have come across some amazing inverts in your travels. I'm particularly impressed by your diversity of mantids and cordyceps fungus. I think my favourite is the jungle weevil. Those are disparate areas what were you doing that took you to both? Thanks for sharing these beautiful shots.
Best,
Nick
Thanks for taking a look! I agree mantids and cordyceps are always exciting to find, I saw a lot of both during the course of work when I didn't have my camera and never got a chance to get photos of but I did manage to run across my fair share of both when I'd go hiking after work. I was also very happy about the weevil, months in the jungle there and I only ever saw the one weevil like it.
So I was working as a field tech or whatever you want to call it in both locations. I was helping with my friends project in Borneo, we were doing a lot of camera trapping of mammalian frugivores in the jungle around there. Then it worked out so that before my field season in Borneo was over I was hired to assist on a conservation project dealing with the Endangered El Oro Parakeet; involving community outreach, monitoring of the birds nests, movement, etc... with the eventual goal of establishing a protected wildlife corridor in Ecuador.
Now i'm in NC doing grad work, my next fieldwork trip will be for my own project down to Peru! Can't wait!