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Aug 11 2009

Entomology in Chile

A little spooky maybe?
Photo: Chris Price

Southern Chile showcases Mother Nature at her finest, and sometimes her most bizarre. In the course of a fishing trip at Chile West, we find a multitude of insect life on the river.

Aquatic insects such as stoneflies, caddisflies, damselflies, dragonflies, craneflies, mayflies and midges make up the majority here. Then you add the terrestrials. We’ve got beetles, bees, flies, butterflies, moths, spiders and grasshoppers, just to name a few.

The famous, gigantic Cantaria beetle
Photo: Chris Price

Some of the insects we come across are unlike anything you have ever seen in your life! There are bugs with horns, pinchers, vivid psychedelic colors, super long antennae and grappling hook-like legs. We’ve got everything from something that looks like a crab/spider hybrid with grasshopper legs, to giant orange bumble bees. Is there some mad scientist out there, cross-breeding anything and everything?

Don’t show this one to your kids.
Photo: Chris Price

You might get the impression that an angler needs to wear full body armor to keep from getting bitten. On the contrary, there are few biting insects and the peskiest of all, the mosquito, we rarely see.

Only a rare appearance.
Photo: Chris Price

No bug dope necessary!

More On Our Surroundings At Chile West
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The Cheese Factory

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