Making it appear even more menacing, as if its five inch length wasn’t sufficient, was a large, black horn on its tail that gained it the informal appellation of “the hornworm from Hell.”
Panama 2010
All posts related to my trip to Canopy Tower and Canopy Lodge in July of 2010.
The Bewildering Butterflies and Moths of Panama
Sandwiched among other useful guidebooks to the flora and fauna of the area was found a copy of The Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America.
Digiscoped Daggerwing
After a solid week of some of the most intense photographic training and practice I have ever experienced in my life, I now lo longer find digiscoping an inapplicable technique for butterflies.
Stalking the Antpitta
I was personally so thrilled at being given the opportunity to see and digiscope an image of this secretive little creature that I didn’t even bother to straighten the camera before depressing the shutter.