Eciton hamatum army ant soldier. This portrait is a composite of 32 photographs taken at different focal depths and stacked to produce an artificially sharp image. 

Armenia, Belize
Eciton hamatum army ant soldier. This portrait is a composite of 32 photographs taken at different focal depths and stacked to produce an artificially sharp image. 

Armenia, Belize
Eciton hamatum army ant soldier. This portrait is a composite of 32 photographs taken at different focal depths and stacked to produce an artificially sharp image. 

Armenia, Belize
Eupholus weevil (Focus-stacked composite image).
A colorful bark louse (Psocidae).

Icononzo, Tolima, Colombia
Planthoppers in the family Dictyopharidae often have characteristic snouts.

Icononzo, Tolima, Colombia
A tree-dwelling mantis emerges from the moss in an Ecuadorian cloud forest.

Maquipucuna reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador
Heteronotus sp. tree hopper (Membracinae). 

Maquipucuna reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador
Eciton burchellii army ant soldier. The hooked mandibles are used to protect army ant colonies against vertebrate predators.

Maquipucuna Reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador
A tree-dwelling mantis emerges from the moss in an Ecuadorian cloud forest.

Maquipucuna reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador
A tree-dwelling mantis emerges from the moss in an Ecuadorian cloud forest.

Maquipucuna reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador
A tree-dwelling mantis emerges from the moss in an Ecuadorian cloud forest.

Maquipucuna reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador
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