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Leaf Cutter Ants (Atta sp.) carrying pieces of leaves to their nest at night in the rainforest, Ecuador
Leaf Cutter Ants (Atta sp.) carrying pieces of leaves to their nest at night in the rainforest, Ecuador
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Trashline Spider (Cyclosa sp.)
- In the rainforest understory, Ecuador. The spider sits in a gap in a line of debris formed from the remains of former prey items.
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Green Euglossine Bee
- In sleeping position at night grasping the mid-vein of a leaf in its mandibles. These bees are pollinators of orchids from which they collect volatile compounds. The very long proboscis protrudes beyond the end of the abdomen.
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Trashline Spider (Cyclosa sp.)
- In the rainforest understory, Ecuador. The spider sits in a gap in a line of debris formed from the remains of former prey items.
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Time-lapse of fungi growing on a dead tree trunk on the rainforest floor in Ecuador
Time-lapse of fungi growing on a dead tree trunk on the rainforest floor in Ecuador
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Green Euglossine Bee
- In sleeping position at night grasping the mid-vein of a leaf in its mandibles. These bees are pollinators of orchids from which they collect volatile compounds. The very long proboscis protrudes beyond the end of the abdomen.
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CU grey smoke and ash cloud billow from crater into sky, Mount Tunguragua, Ecuador
CU grey smoke and ash cloud billow from crater into sky, Mount Tunguragua, Ecuador
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Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.) walking along a branch above a rainforest stream in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.) walking along a branch above a rainforest stream in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.) walking along a branch above a rainforest stream in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.) walking along a branch above a rainforest stream in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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Tracking along a fallen tree trunk in Amazonian rainforest in Ecuador with army ants.
A trail of Army Ants (Eciton sp.) is crawling along the trunk. They are carrying ant larvae and pupae from a raid on another ant species.
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Tracking along a fallen tree trunk in Amazonian rainforest in Ecuador with army ants.
A trail of Army Ants (Eciton sp.) is crawling along the trunk. They are carrying ant larvae and pupae from a raid on another ant species.
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Rio Napo, Ecuador with the Andes Mountains in the distance. The Napo is a major tributary of the Amazon. A dugout canoe drifts downstream.
Rio Napo, Ecuador with the Andes Mountains in the distance. The Napo is a major tributary of the Amazon. A dugout canoe drifts downstream.
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Walking along a path through Amazonian rainforest in Ecuador
Walking along a path through Amazonian rainforest in Ecuador
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Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.) walking along a branch above a rainforest stream in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.) walking along a branch above a rainforest stream in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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Colony of hemipteran bugs
Showing insects in all stages of development, adults, nymphs and eggs. On the trunk of a small tree in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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Social spiders climbing in their web at night
- Time-lapse in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Groups of several hundred spiders inhabit a large web where they share their prey.
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Group of spiny treehoppers attended by ants
- On a new shoot growing from a rainforest shrub in Ecuador. An ant is milking the treehoppers for honeydew.
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A small brightly coloured moth in the Ecuadorian Amazon
A small brightly coloured moth in the Ecuadorian Amazon
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Group of spiny treehoppers attended by ants
- On a new shoot growing from a rainforest shrub in Ecuador. An ant is milking the treehoppers for honeydew.
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Ants tending treehoppers on the underside of a leaf
- In the rainforest, Ecuador. The treehopper produces a drop of honeydew which is collected by the ant.
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Group of spiny treehoppers attended by ants
- On a new shoot growing from a rainforest shrub in Ecuador. An ant is milking the treehoppers for honeydew.
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Leaf Cutter Ants (Atta sp.) carrying pieces of leaves to their nest at night in the rainforest, Ecuador
Leaf Cutter Ants (Atta sp.) carrying pieces of leaves to their nest at night in the rainforest, Ecuador
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Hot Lips Plant (Psychotria poeppigiana)
- A rainforest understory shrub in the Ecuadorian Amazon. A butterfly visits and a grasshopper is sitting on the flower.
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Time-lapse of a snail crawling on the rainforest floor
- In tropical rainforest in the Ecuadorian Amazon.