These are the geometers (again, inchworms; think of what that word actually means: "earth measure"). The third one down (with the Joan Collins shoulder pads) is actually a guess as to family; it very easily could be something else. There are lots of green ones that are hard to ID (generally called emeralds, though similarly looking ones might actually be in different subfamilies; most are geometrines). I thought the second one down was so distinctive to be an easy ID. I was wrong. It's probably an ennomine, a vast, vast subfamily with probably as many species in this one subfamily as there are birds in the world. Before each photo I list the location.
La Selva Biological Station
Savegre Lodge (San Gerardo de Dota)
Savegre Lodge (San Gerardo de Dota)
Savegre Lodge (San Gerardo de Dota)
Braulio Carrillo National Park (Quebrada Gonzalez)
Savegre Lodge (San Gerardo de Dota)
These others probably represent a noctuid (an enormous family with thousands of photos to sift through), a notodontid (or another noctuid? – it is the largest family of moths, after all), and the white one is so odd that I have no idea what family it might be in. Probably noctuidae. I really like those huge antennae, built for sensing pheromones.
Savegre Lodge (San Gerardo de Dota)
Braulio Carrillo National Park (Quebrada Gonzalez)
Braulio Carrillo National Park (Quebrada Gonzalez)
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