Emerging butterfly and other pupae (sounds like a books name!)
Blue MorphoSwallowtail
Caterpillar of the owl butterflySpines on me- caterpillar (unidentified)A caterpillar. One that we saw, these are as well camouflaged as anything elseThis one causes severe itching if you touch him!Caterpillars that don’t pull punches and warn with their spiny defense (unidentified caterpillar)
There are thousands of species of butterflies in Costa Rica. Apparently 90% of the butterflies of Central and South America can be found there! Photographed beautifully by many photographers. The number of blue morphos that accompanied us down and up every trail we took was astounding (in Peruvian Amazon, we saw maybe 3 in total, in Costa Rica we saw one every 5 min in some places, like Monteverde). What really amazed me were the caterpillars we saw, I have honestly not seen so many types, with so many spines ever before!
Flowers as amazing as the butterfliesSwallowtail laying eggs on binocular strap!Malachite butterflyBlue morpho
Yellow SwallowtailPostmanA butterfly with naturally torn wings (at molting), we were told by our guide
Implicit Self 