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Eyed Hawk-moth (70)
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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2543 W: 170 N: 7734]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (24475) | Eyed Hawk-Moth - Smerinthus ocellatus
The green caterpillar in my previous post turned into this beautiful Moth that emerged at the beginning of July. Here you can’t see the eyes on the hindwings as they usually only open their wings when disturbed or threatened when the large eyes may frighten a predator! Here it is posed on a stick onto which it climbed up when emerging. I then managed to get another capture of it on the trunk of the Apple tree where some ants were annoying it and it flapped its wings before it flew off. You can see this picture in the WORKSHOP.
This was captured with the camera handheld from a distance of 1/2 metre. It has been cropped and sharpened. |
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