These colorful frogs live only in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon and they don’t currently have a common name. It’s hard to imagine just how small they are. A fingernail is often given as a reference. Although a pinky nail on a rather small hand would be more accurate. They live inside bromeliad plants like this one here, often multiple frogs in one plant. Their upper parts are a brilliant yellow with black spots or stripes. The underside is a pale blue. I saw quite a few of this species. More posts to come. For this image, I used a wide angle macro lens to show more of the environment, rather than my traditional macro lens. Nikon D850 with Laowa 15mm wide angle macro lens, ISO 1600, 1/25th of a second, no f stop recorded with the Laowa lens, Godox V860iii fill flash.
Well, then, I guess I better check all my bromeliads to see if any poison darts are hiding there! Can one of their (what must be) tiny poison darts kill a human!
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These colorful frogs live only in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon and they don’t currently have a common name. It’s hard to imagine just how small they are. A fingernail is often given as a reference. Although a pinky nail on a rather small hand would be more accurate. They live inside bromeliad plants like this one here, often multiple frogs in one plant. Their upper parts are a brilliant yellow with black spots or stripes. The underside is a pale blue. I saw quite a few of this species. More posts to come. For this image, I used a wide angle macro lens to show more of the environment, rather than my traditional macro lens. Nikon D850 with Laowa 15mm wide angle macro lens, ISO 1600, 1/25th of a second, no f stop recorded with the Laowa lens, Godox V860iii fill flash.
Well, then, I guess I better check all my bromeliads to see if any poison darts are hiding there! Can one of their (what must be) tiny poison darts kill a human!
They don’t have darts, the native tribespeople would dip their darts across the backs of the frogs to get that poison on the tips.
Nice – frogs are among the coolest creatures to photograph. Nice capture!
Agreed. I love them and they can be quite accommodating if you can find them.