Nicuesa Lodge and Insectopia Join in Preserving Costa Rica Insects Nicuesa Lodge and Insectopia Join in Preserving Costa Rica Insects Playa Nicuesa Rainforest Lodge is partnering with Insectopia Insect Museum to study and preserve amazing Costa Rica insects. Covering an area of just 700 square miles, the Osa Peninsula in southern Costa Rica packs an unparalleled amount of land and marine species in an incredibly small area – including more than 10,000 insects. In fact, the area is estimated to contain 2.5 percent of all the biodiversity in the world, while covering less than a thousandth of a percent of the planet’s total surface area. A giant Harlequin Beetle on the Osa Peninsula, image by Insectopia. Playa Nicuesa Rainforest Lodge has joined forces with the Costa Rican Insectopia Insect Museum and its team of scientists to study the amazing biodiversity of Costa Rica insects in the southern Pacific rainforest….
