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Juan Guillermo Jaramillo Velasquez very first took up electronic photography of butterflies in Colombia mainly because it was less complicated than photographing birds, but in a significant portion thanks to his initiatives, Colombia now has the world’s biggest confirmed database of Lepidoptera, the get of bugs that involves butterflies and moths.

Colombia is the world’s most biodiverse nation for birds, spawning guidebooks and a escalating fowl tourism industry, but until eventually latest years, comparatively tiny was regarded about the butterflies and moths of Colombia.

Nowadays, there are 3,642 species formally documented in the South American place and of these, over 200 are endemic, identified only in Colombia. This is in no smaller portion to the endeavours of Jaramillo, American photographer Kim Garwood and Colombian biologists Cristóbal Ríos and Blanca Huertas to produce a butterfly database.

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