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The green and black colors of this tortoise beetle from Amazonian Peru provide excellent camouflage when resting on a leaf. The splayed, translucent margin helps minimize telltale shadows.

This mud-dauber wasp is visiting a flower to collect nectar and inadver­ tently carries pollen with when it leaves. If it visits another flower of the same species, there is a good chance that cross­ fertilization will take place.

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