From late June to mid July Kim Garwood, Wanda Dameron, Hank and Priscilla Brodkin, accompanied by a birder and a videographer and most of the time guided by local lepidopterist/naturalist Harold Greeney, surveyed the eastern and western upper tropical and subtropical slopes of the Andes to study and photograph the butterflies of that region.  The trip was a great success.  We took thousands of images, which hopefully will be identified in time.  We would like to share some of them with you.  While on our trip some individuals were handled, taken and posed for photography for scientific research purposes, I have done my best to limit these images to those taken of live, unmanipulated insects in natural settings - because that is what I like to do. One posed leafwing below, photographed by Priscilla, was used.  One look would tell you why!
    Thanks to Harold Greeney, Kim Garwood, Wanda Dameron and Jerry McWilliams for help with the ID's - both in the field and now. Any further help or discussion will be welcomed.  And thanks to Dennis Paulson and Bob Behrstock for Ode ID's.  Please e-mail Hank Brodkin with your thoughts.

               Corades enyo Baeza - 27 June, 2004 HB                            Caligo sp Archidonna - 30 June 2004 HB

                           Ancyluris meliboeus and Arawacus togarna on the lower Loreto Road - 29 June, 2004  HB