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Traveling Exhibit

Dry tropical forest

Flatid bugs
Flatid bugs
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Camouflage? These large (5/8") flatid bugs gather in formations that may resemble flower clusters. This makes them very conspicuous. Perhaps it either fools predators or advertises that the bugs are unpalatable.

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Contents:
1.Ankarana Special Reserve
2.Ampijoroa Forestry Station
 ·Lake Ampijoroabe
 ·Woman and children fishing
 ·Crocodile at Lake Ampijoroabe
 ·Coquerel's Sifaka mother and young
 ·Coquerel's Sifaka
 ·Aroid
 ·Dragonflies mating
 ·Flatid bugs
 ·Flatid bug nymph
 ·Flatid bug
 ·Ant lion
 ·Cryptic moth
 ·Tortoise Beetle
 ·Grasshopper with stars in its e
 ·Golden Silk Spider
 ·Pholcid spider on a leaf
 ·Tiny Salticid spider
 
Golden Mantella, Mantella aurantiaca

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