Ingo Arndt / Cup Moth (Acharia nesea) caterpillar, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Looper Moth (Geometridae) caterpillar with aposematic coloration, Atewa Range, Ghana

Chien Lee / Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) male, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand

Konrad Wothe / Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas), native to southeast Asia

Chien Lee / Saturniid Moth (Loepa megacore), Mount Kinabalu National Park, Borneo, Malaysia

Kim Taylor / Sexton beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides) taking off showing elytra folded upwards along back and phoretic mites gathered on thorax to where they migrate whenever the beetle prepares for flight, digit...

Mark Moffett / Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus orbicollis) recycles a dead rat by laying eggs near its body then feeding larvae bits of regurgitated carcass

Mitsuhiko Imamori / Suraka Silk Moth (Antherina suraka) portrait, showing back with wings spread displaying shades of pink, Madagascar

Mark Moffett / Slug Caterpillar (Setora fletcheri) shows warning coloration and spines loaded with toxins that erect when the animal is disturbed, Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam

Piotr Naskrecki / Cup Moth (Phobetron sp) caterpillar, Suriname

Ingo Arndt / Saddleback Moth (Sibine horrida) caterpillars with poisonous spines, Costa Rica

Ingo Arndt / Saddleback Moth (Sibine horrida) caterpillar with poisonous spines, Costa Rica

Ingo Arndt / Saddleback Moth (Sibine horrida) caterpillars with poisonous spines, Costa Rica

Pete Oxford / Saturniid Moth (Citheronia sp) caterpillar, Yasuni National Park, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Saturniid Moth (Saturniidae), Yasuni National Park, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Saturniid Moth (Saturniidae), Yasuni National Park, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador

Tom Vezo / Chinese Oak Silk Moth (Antheraea pernyi), Tucson, Arizona

Pete Oxford / Saturniid Moth (Saturniidae) false eyespots on wings, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Saturniid Moth (Saturniidae), Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Saturniid Moth (Saturniidae) flashing eyespots in defense, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Saturniid Moth (Saturniidae) in leaf litter, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Day-flying Moth (Urania leilus) group sipping minerals, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Looper Moth (Cimicodes albicosta) camouflaged in leaf litter, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Saturniid Moth (Oxytenis sp) camouflaged in leaf litter, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Chiron Sphinx Moth (Xylophanes chiron), Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Piotr Naskrecki / Cup Moth (Limacodidae) caterpillars, Sipaliwini, Surinam

Piotr Naskrecki / Cup Moth (Limacodidae) caterpillars in rainforest, Sipaliwini, Surinam

Piotr Naskrecki / Burying Beetle (Diamesus osculans), Muller Range, Papua New Guinea

Piotr Naskrecki / Sexton Beetle (Nicrophorus sp) with aposematic coloration, Nakanai Mountains, New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Chien Lee / Looper Moth (Sarcinodes reductatus) male mimicking dead leaf, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Steve Gettle / Looper Moth (Geometridae) camouflaged on tree trunk, Costa Rica

Steve Gettle / Hawk Moth (Sphingidae) camouflaged on tree trunk, Costa Rica

Steve Gettle / Hawk Moth (Sphingidae), Costa Rica

Steve Gettle / Hawk Moth (Sphingidae) camouflaged in leaf litter, Costa Rica

Steve Gettle / Looper Moth (Geometridae), Costa Rica

Steve Gettle / Looper Moth (Geometridae) camouflaged on leaf, Costa Rica

Steve Gettle / Saturniid Moth (Rothschildia erycina) on hand, Costa Rica

Steve Gettle / Saturniid Moth (Saturniidae), Costa Rica

Steve Gettle / Looper Moth (Geometridae) camouflaged on tree trunk, Costa Rica

Steve Gettle / Looper Moth (Geometridae), Costa Rica

Steve Gettle / Looper Moth (Geometridae), Costa Rica

Steve Gettle / Looper Moth (Oospila venezuelata), Costa Rica

Steve Gettle / Looper Moth (Oospila albicoma), Costa Rica

Steve Gettle / Looper Moth (Oospila sp), Costa Rica

Steve Gettle / Tersa Sphinx Moth (Xylophanes tersa), Costa Rica

Alex Hyde / Burying beetles (Nicrophorus investigator) two on dead squirrel foot, Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, UK, September.

Piotr Naskrecki / Hawk Moth (Sphingidae), Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Hawk Moth (Sphingidae), Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Hawk Moth (Sphingidae), Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Crambid Snout Moth (Pyrausta californicalis), Woburn, Massachusetts

Piotr Naskrecki / Tomentose Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus tomentosus) with aposematic coloration, Woburn, Massachusetts

Piotr Naskrecki / Tomentose Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus tomentosus), Woburn, Massachusetts

Piotr Naskrecki / Winter Moth (Operophtera brumata) pair mating, Woburn, Massachusetts

Piotr Naskrecki / Winter Moth (Operophtera brumata) female, Woburn, Massachusetts

Piotr Naskrecki / Hawk Moth (Sphingidae), Barbilla National Park, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Hawk Moth (Sphingidae), Barbilla National Park, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Looper Moth (Geometridae), Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Hawk Moth (Sphingidae), Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Hawk Moth (Sphingidae), Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Hawk Moth (Sphingidae), Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Saturniid Moth (Arsenura armida) caterpillars clustered together prior to pupation in dry forest, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Christian Ziegler / Cup Moth (Limacodidae) caterpillar has poisonous spines for protection, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

James Christensen / Looper Moth (Geometridae) caterpillar, Mindo, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

James Christensen / Looper Moth (Geometridae) caterpillar crawling, Mindo, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

James Christensen / Looper Moth (Geometridae) camouflaged on branch, Mindo, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Piotr Naskrecki / Cup Moth (Limacodidae) aposematically colored caterpillar with spines that can deliver an extremely painful sting, Atewa Range Forest Reserve, Ghana

Andy Sands / Predatory Beetle / Burying Beetle (Dendroxena 4-maculata). West Sussex, England, May.

Piotr Naskrecki / Cup Moth (Limacodidae) aposematically colored caterpillar, Ghana

Piotr Naskrecki / Cup Moth (Limacodidae) caterpillar, Ghana

Paul Hobson / Sexton beetle (Nicrophorus investigator) on dead Pheasant (Phasianus sp), UK, July

Paul Hobson / Sexton beetle (Nicrophorus investigator) on dead Pheasant (Phasianus sp), UK, July

Nature Production / Burying beetles (Nicrophorus japonicus) on left and (Nicrphorus concolor) on right, feeding on dead mole, Japan

Nature Production / Burying beetle (Nicrophorus concolor) feeding on dead mole, Japan

Nature Production / Burying beetle (Nicrophorus japonicus) feeding on dead mole, Japan

Christian Ziegler / Leaf-nosed Bat (Phyllostomidae) flight muscles and blood vessels in the wing membrane, Smithsonian Tropical Research Station, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Leaf-nosed Bat (Phyllostomidae) wing showing veins, Smithsonian Tropical Research Station, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Mark Moffett / Five-spotted Hawkmoth (Manduca quinquemaculata) feeding on flower nectar, Sonoita, Arizona

Mark Moffett / Five-spotted Hawkmoth (Manduca quinquemaculata) feeding on Longtube Four O'clock (Mirabilis longiflora) nectar, Arizona

Pete Oxford / Rustic Sphinx Moth (Manduca rustica) camouflaged on tree trunk Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Chien Lee / Death's Head Hawk Moth (Acherontia lachesis), Kinabalu National Park, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Death's Head Hawk Moth (Acherontia lachesis) camouflaged on branch, Kinabalu National Park, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Death's Head Hawk Moth (Acherontia lachesis), Kinabalu National Park, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Saturniid Moth (Loepantheraea rosieri), Lawas, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Looper Moth (Aporandria specularia), Gunung Penrissen, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Saturniid Moth (Antheraea larissa), Lundu, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Hawk Moth (Daphnis hypothous), Bukit Sarang Conservation Area, Bintulu, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) male allowing its wings to expand and harden after merging from cocoon, Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia, sequence 4 of 5

Chien Lee / Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) male allowing its wings to expand and harden after merging from cocoon, Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia, sequence 5 of 5

Chien Lee / Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) male allowing its wings to expand and harden after merging from cocoon, Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia, sequence 3 of 5

Chien Lee / Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) male allowing its wings to expand and harden after merging from cocoon, Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia, sequence 2 of 5

Chien Lee / Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) male allowing its wings to expand and harden after emerging from cocoon, Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia, sequence 1 of 5

Chien Lee / Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) caterpillar, Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) caterpillars, Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) newly hatched caterpillars, Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) showing prominent antenna, Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Cup Moth (Limacodidae) caterpillar with bristles capable of inflicting painful stings, Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia