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A yellow-striped insect among wet plants

A dark insect with yellow stripes rests among damp páramo stems. Its finer identification remains unresolved.

A dark insect with yellow stripes rests among damp páramo stems. Its finer identification remains unresolved. Identified subject: Lepidoptera.

Album Small wonders beside the trail, Insects and arachnids, The mossy highlands

Travis Pence · All rights reserved

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A walker passes between tall boulders above a narrow, moss-lined path.
A narrow mossy rock passage
A rough path winds beneath leaning, red-barked trees in a sheltered highland woodland.
A path through red-barked woodland
Curved pink Pedicularis incurva flowers with dark beaked tips line a purple spike among dry grasses and mossy highland plants.
Pedicularis incurva among páramo grasses
Small white cup-shaped Gentianella flowers cluster above narrow opposite leaves.
White Gentianella flowers
A pink and white Pedicularis incurva flower spike rises above finely divided leaves on mossy ground.
Pedicularis incurva in wet páramo
A small bird on a lichen-covered branch
A small bird on a lichen-covered branch