Pete Oxford / Big-legged Bug or Squash Bug (Coreidae) on Heliconia Flower. Yasuni National Park, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador. South America

Piotr Naskrecki / Cicada (Cicadidae), Barbilla National Park, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Fulgorid Planthopper (Fulgoridae) spreading wings to show aposematic coloration, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Tessaratomid (Tessaratomidae) nymph with warning coloration, Papua New Guinea

Thomas Marent / Red Stink Bug (Pycanum rubeus) nymph, Sepilok, Borneo, Malaysia

Ingo Arndt / Researcher Jim Lewis curator of the true bug collection at INBio, San Jose, Costa Rica

Ingo Arndt / Water Boatman (Notonecta glauca) with reflection underwater, a true bug of the Heteroptera suborder, Europe

Ingo Arndt / Pond Skater (Gerris sp) using surface tension to walk on water, a true bug of the Heteroptera suborder, Europe

Kim Taylor / Shield Bug (Hemiptera) female laying eggs on grass stem. Namibia, Africa.

Michael & Patricia Fogden / True Bug (Pephricus sp) pair, insect mimics plant as camouflage, South Africa

Mitsuhiko Imamori / Cicada (Tanna japonensis) emerging, Shiga, Japan

Morley Read / Adult cicada (Cicadoidea), just emerged from its larval skin and waiting for the wings to expand and dry, Pastaza Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)