Gil Wizen

Entomologist and Photographer

  • About me
  • Image use
  • Blog
  • Photography
    • Insects & other invertebrates
    • Amphibians & Reptiles
    • Birds
    • Mammals
    • Plants & Fungi
    • Landscape
  • Projects
    • Meet Your Neighbours
    • Unwanted Neighbours
    • Epomis beetles
  • Research publications
  • Featured work
  • Media coverage
  • Shop
  • Contact me
  • Links
  • About me
  • Image use
  • Blog
  • Photography
    • Insects & other invertebrates
    • Amphibians & Reptiles
    • Birds
    • Mammals
    • Plants & Fungi
    • Landscape
  • Projects
    • Meet Your Neighbours
    • Unwanted Neighbours
    • Epomis beetles
  • Research publications
  • Featured work
  • Media coverage
  • Shop
  • Contact me
  • Links
McLean Falls, Catlins Forest Park, New Zealand

Landscape

Fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra). Carmel Mountain Ridge, Israel

Newts and Salamanders

Iris atropurpurea. Central Coastal Plain, Israel

Plants

Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes jasius). Upper Galilee, Israel

Butterflies and Moths

Dog day cicada (Tibicen canicularis) molting to its adult stage. Ontario, Canada

Bugs, Planthoppers and Cicadas

Freshly-eclosed short-snout weevil (Compsus sp.) use impressive mandibles to break out of the pupal skin. These scissor-like attachments drop later. Mindo, Ecuador

Beetles

Portrait of a juvenile Jewelled gecko (Naultinus gemmeus). Otago Peninsula, New Zealand

Geckos

Spectacular male jumping spider (Sidusa unicolor). Cayo District, Belize

Spiders

Red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas). Limón Province, Costa Rica

Frogs

Male Wellington tree weta (Hemideina crassidens). Titahi Bay, New Zealand

Grasshoppers, Katydids and Crickets

Variable coral snake (Micrurus diastema). Cayo District, Belize

Snakes

Juvenile Heterophrynus batesii. Amazon Basin, eastern Ecuador

Amblypygi

Velvet worm (Peripatoides novaezealandiae). Okere Falls, New Zealand

Velvet worms

Sand scorpion (Buthacus leptochelys leptochelys) fluorescence under UV light. Southern Coastal Plain, Israel

Scorpions

Keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus). Caves Branch, Belize

Birds