Butterflies and Other Insects from Panama:

Updated: Sunday October 13, 2013

The photos below were taken during a 12 day trip to Panama in August 2011. We stayed at both the Canopy Tower birding center near Gamboa and the Canopy Lodge birding center in El Valle de Antón.

The pictures were taken on the Canopy Tower and Canopy Lodge grounds and during the day-trips from each location. Location details are included in the descriptions with each photo.

Enjoy the "critters" below...I certainly did while I was photographing them!

• Canopy Tower/Lodge: August 3rd - 14th
  
  

• Leaf-cutter Ants #4 - a very common and easily seen ant species...seen here "cutting" up leaves (Location: Canopy Tower/Semaphore Road)
  
  
• Leaf-cutter Ants #1 - a very common and easily seen ant species...seen here carrying the leaf bits back to the nest (Location: Canopy Tower/Semaphore Road)
  
  
• Leaf-cutter Ants #5 - Tragedy along Pipeline Road!...a bicycle outing with about 50 riders took a toll on a line of ants carrying leaf bits back to the nest (Location: Canopy Tower/Pipeline Road)
  
  
• Ants sp #1 - ants find the bananas at the feeding stations (Location: Canopy Lodge)
  
  
• Achilles Morpho #1 - at the Canopy Lodge feeders...comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Lodge)
  
  
• Atreus Owl Butterfly #1 - at the Canopy Lodge feeders...comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Lodge)
  
  
• Morpho Butterfly sp #2 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower/Metropolitan Park)
  
  
• Morpho Butterfly sp #5 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower/Metropolitan Park)
  
  
• Owl Butterfly sp #6 - at the Canopy Lodge feeders...comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Lodge)
  
  
• Teucer Giant Owl Butterfly #2 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower/Metropolitan Park)
  
  
• White-and-black Butterfly sp #1 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Lodge/Las Minas Trail)
  
  
• Cattleheart Butterfly sp #6 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Lodge)
  
  
• Tropical Checkered-Skipper #2 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Lodge/El Chiru)
  
  
• Cicada sp #1 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Lodge)
  
  
• Starry Night Cracker #1 - at the Canopy Lodge feeders...comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Lodge)
  
  
• Three-banded Crescent #2 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Lodge/Las Minas Trail)
  
  
• Many-banded Daggerwing #1 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower/Achiote Road)
  
  
• Yellow-tipped Flasher #3 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower)
  
  
• Orange-banded Grasshopper sp #1 - ID confirmed as [Panamacris magnifica] (Location: Canopy Lodge/Altos del Maria)
  
  
• Yellow-striped Grasshopper sp #2 - ID confirmed as [Chromacris psittacus] (Location: Canopy Lodge/Las Minas Trail)
  
  
• Julia #16 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower/Fort San Lorenzo Park)
  
  
• Katydid sp #1 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower/Semaphore Road)
  
  
• Hecale Longwing #1 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower/Achiote Road)
  
  
• Urania Swallowtail Moth #1 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower/Ammo Dump Ponds)
  
  
• White-striped Moth sp #2 - at the Canopy Lodge feeders...comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Lodge)
  
  
• Aztec Ant Nest #1 - a very common and easily seen ant nest (Location: Canopy Tower/Semaphore Road)
  
  
• Rain-forest Orb-weaver sp #1 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower/Semaphore Road)
  
  
• Orb-weaver sp #1 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower/Fort San Lorenzo Park)
  
  
• Banded Peacock #7 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Lodge/Las Minas Trail)
  
  
• White Peacock #9 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower/Fort San Lorenzo Park)
  
  
• Blue Skipper sp #1 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower/Pipeline Road)
  
  
• Ghost Skipper sp #2 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower)
  
  
• Little Spotted Skipper sp #1 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower)
  
  
• Longtail Skipper sp #3 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower)
  
  
• Mottled Skipper sp #1 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower/Fort San Lorenzo Park)
  
  
• Spotted Skipper sp #3 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower)
  
  
• Banded Skipper sp #2 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower)
  
  
• White-spotted Skipper sp #1 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower)
  
  
• White-striped Skipper sp #4 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Lodge/Cerro Gaital)
  
  
• Separata Stripestreak #3 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Lodge/Cerro Gaital)
  
  
• Termites sp #1 - this stream of termites was winding its way across the main roadway...comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Tower/Metropolitan Park)
  
  
• Walking Stick sp #1 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Lodge/Cerro Gaital)
  
  
• Walking Stick sp #2 - comments on the ID are welcome (Location: Canopy Lodge/Cerro Gaital)