Wednesday, 5 December 2018

Amazon advent Day 5


Most visitors understandably want to see the birds and mammals so it can be quite frustrating when we have a slow morning for these but there is always something to see in the rainforest!  There is a whole, fascinating world of insects out there to be discovered if you set your sights a little smaller and take the time to investigate all around you.  The treehoppers, in particular, are a wonderfully diverse group of brightly coloured and fantastically shaped, sap-sucking insects related to cicadas.  This one, about as big as the tip of your little finger, is almost certainly in the genus Phyllotropis but I was unable to find any information as to how to tell the various species apart.