Not every hunt for fungi is successful, but the attention paid to natural detail will usually pay off - take this beautiful Lophocampa caryae caterpillar, an ancillary but beautiful discovery.
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The Caterpillar Form Of Lophocampa caryae, The Hickory Tussock Moth
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Those little guys are awesome. The ones I usually see around here are gray, so they remind me of a little shih tzu that my mom and dad had.
Saw this guy in upstate NY in Spring - nevver seen anything it before, and it's wackadoo look make it fairly easy to ID. Super weird.
nice capture... i aslo got mine.. hehhe
I'd love to compare!
hehehehe it's a snail though :P
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Ohhhh I do have one to compare! A totally different species, but a snail from a very similar angle. I'll post it at some point this week but wanted to try to ID. It first.
looking forward to it ^_^
Have you seen http://www.thecaterpillarlab.org ? They had an absolutely gorgeous exhibit of photos and videos at the Boston Museum of Science this summer.
I had not - but it is immediately endearing.
Once this dissecting microscope gets here I'm gonna spend a lot of time figuring out how to take some mean extreme macro shots - and once I get the hang of it, the potential is there to expand my blog to cover a wider variety of fauna and flora.
However, to really get into the weeds with caterpillars, or any bugs for that matter, I'm gonna need to get over a life long phobia... once in a while I'll find microscopic mites living inside the gills of a wild mushroom, and even that tends to freak me out a bit...
I had my students taking surprisingly good shots by just holding their cell phone lenses to the eyepiece of the old monocular scopes. They were way more enthusiastic about doing that, and then editing their photos to add arrows and comments, than they were about drawing what they saw by hand (which would have been easier)
That's how I've been getting decent macro shots on the cheap - my phone and a jewelers lens! And boy is it surprising - I remember trying it the first time certain it wouldn't work and then having my mind blown.
beautiful photography post.
What a mysterious animal..
Those little creatures are so cool! I dig em! Attention is key in many tasks.
Wow thanks for sharing this beauty.