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Monarch Caterpillar


Monarch Caterpillar
Photo Information
Copyright: Aan M Anshar (aan) (115)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-02-20
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon 30 D, Canon EF 100 mm F2.8 Macro USM
Exposure: f/9.0, 1/250 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-02-20 8:13
Viewed: 1000
Points: 22
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Caterpillar
After the caterpillar hatches, its first meal is the eggshell itself. It lives its entire larval life on the lower side of the leaves. During the first few days it has a very interesting manner of feeding: It will take up a spot on the underside of the leaf and nip a complete circle around itself in the lower cuticle of the leaf. By doing this it stops the poisonous sap of its host plant from flowing into the area inside the circle. It then proceeds to eats the lower surface of this area, leaving the upper cuticle intact.
As it grows, it eats both the lower and upper cuticle of the circle thus leaving smallish circular holes in the leaves of its host plant. When its mandibles are large enough it eats the complete leaf by gnawing at the edges.
The caterpillar is uniformly cylindrical. Its body is covered with bands of black and white interspersed with thick, yellow, dorsolateral spots. The most striking characteristics are the 3 pairs of long and black tentacle-like appendages. The first pair is moveable and also the longest. The tentacles are present on the 3rd, 6th and 12th segments. The head is shiny, smooth and has alternating black and white semicircular bands. The legs and prolegs are black and the prolegs have white bands at their bases.
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Awesome critter and awesome pic! Beautiful colors, nice focus, good background. Very cool!

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  • Arjun Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 299 W: 3 N: 729] (3422)
  • [2008-02-20 8:51]

hi Aan,
Beautiful picture.Lovely green BG and the plant is awesome..Thed etails on the caterpillar is superb.
TFS

Hi,
This is a super shot of a caterpillar. The position of the insect, sharpness , colors , exposure and the diffused BG make this a very beautiful picture to watch.
TFS
Goutham

Hi Aan,
Great shot of this caterpillar, which I suspect is a species of the genus Euploea. Splendid sharpness, colours and composition. Thanks.
Alan

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  • batu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1007 W: 285 N: 3322] (10976)
  • [2008-02-20 9:48]

Hello Aan
you captured the caterpillar and the moment very well resulting in a fine geometric composition of the picture.
Furthermore, you achieved excellent sharpness. In combination with the well-blanced light and
the natural colours, the details and characters of the caterpillar are nicely shown.
The species is Danaus chrysippus (not D. plexippus).
Best wishes, Peter

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  • cako Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 381 W: 0 N: 366] (1966)
  • [2008-02-20 10:56]

Hi
very good macro study
very nice color and detail
well done

Good work, Aan.
Good compo. Excellent background.
Well done!
TFS
Annick

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  • crs Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 269 W: 0 N: 388] (1583)
  • [2008-02-20 21:58]

Hi Aan,

That is a nice macro of the caterpillar! Excelent DOF with sharp cear details on the whole body of the caterpillar. Very good lighting with nice vivid colors.

Thank you for sharing,
Cristian

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  • Ena Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 359 W: 61 N: 570] (2341)
  • [2008-02-21 1:32]

Hi Aan,
Lovely capture!
Perfet sharpnes and very nice POV!
Beautiful composition with a great green BG!
TFS
Ena

Ciao Aan,
bellissima questa foto!
Mi piace soprattutto il momento scelto per lo scatto, col bruco in questa caratteristica posizione.
Ciao,
Marcello

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  • ibay (2)
  • [2008-03-24 1:24]

bagus macronya, warnanya juga dan sangat tajam.....Selamat!!!!

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