Hello all, I wanted to share some photos of some of the invertebrates I have encountered over my last 5 trips to Costa Rica. Considering I know next to nothing about identifying invertebrates in this area, this will be a lot of photos with very little commentary or descriptions.
Opening out with a close up of a dragonfly from Manuel Antonio




I have no idea what these are but they look pretty neat

They seem to be enjoying some fungus

A large net casting spider, always among my favorite spiders to find

Another spider species

A large cockaroach out on a trail

A leaf mimic katydid

And a katydid having a very bad day with a spider

A very brightly colored cicada

Fresh out from its larval form

A pretty planarian

A close up of a large spider, I think possible a type of wandering spider


An emerging dragonfly



A really neat looking little bug

More of the same little weird invert on a separate trip

Neat little grasshopper

A well camoflauged spider

More spiders


A large katydid

A morpho that has seen better days


These little guys were really interesting to find


A smaller net casting spider


A wandering spider close up


This awesome katydid was one of my favorites


I think this is a Halloween crab

Another interesting crab


Wandering spider with egg mass

A nice millipede

A scorpion in Guanacaste

Scorpion eating another scorpion, I think mating gone wrong



A horde of ants devouring a scorpion



Blue morpho


A spider eating a baby red eye tree frog

Butterflies, I don’t know the species






Longhorn beetle

Ants living in an acacia tree

A very ambitious scorpion taking a moth


Zebra longwings

A small tarantula

An emerging dragonfly

A fishing spider taking a moth along a river


Another spider



I wasn’t sure if this spider was eating another spider or a molt

An emerging cicada


A very prickly looking caterpillar

This interesting little bug, someone identified it previously but I forgot


This is one of my favorite scorpion photos

A large grasshopper

And a smiley face beetle to wrap it up!

So those are my favorite invert photos from Costa Rica over 5 trips, I hope you enjoyed and sorry for the lack of identification on them! Hope you enjoyed, and if you want to see more please check my website www.ChrisGillette.com