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Posted by Tim Munsey on June 6, 2006 at 4:55 AM
What's this going to be when it grows up?

Cheers

Tim
Posted by Barrie Harwood on June 6, 2006 at 5:04 AM
Hi Tim

It's the larva of the Drinker Moth.

Soon they'll be pupating to re-emerge later in the year. The adults are quite strikingly sexually dimorphic and the moth gets it's name from the habit of the larva to actually drink droplets of water from blades of grass (it's foodplant)

Good pic - would like to have seen a catchlight in the eye though :smile:

Barrie
Posted by Tim Munsey on June 6, 2006 at 6:26 AM
Drinker Moth eh, sounds my kind of moth :biggrin:
Cheers Barrie

Tim
Posted by Justin on June 6, 2006 at 1:58 PM
Nice image Tim. That's certainly a colourful and interesting looking creature you've found there. :cool:
Posted by Kevin Lewis on June 6, 2006 at 4:07 PM
catchlight in its eye? I'd be happy knowing which end had two eyes! :wink:

Good environment shot Tim. enough dof to cover the caterpillar without too much in the bg pulling the eye away from the subject
Posted by Graeme Lee on June 6, 2006 at 5:27 PM
A right stonker as you say Tim...or is it a bit of foliage? :biggrin:

Be interested on techs especially what lens you've used for this shot?

:toast: :toast: Graeme