Lobster Moth Caterpillar (Stauropus fagi)

[Precarious]

This is one sick looking caterpillar!

Photos and video by John Hallmen.

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[hibiscusmile]

Oh Wordy! right before I am going to bed, nightmares say hello! :lol:

 

[angelofdeathzz]

Wow, are you sure that's not a mismolted Extatosoma Tiaratum? or maybe a Macleay's Spectre, it look kind of looks like either one.

 

[twolfe]

That is one cool cat! I've never seen anything like that.

I looked at that guy's images on his website, and he has some amazing macro and extreme macro images. But I can't believe the number of exposures he uses in some of his stacks. He must be using an automated device to do that. I didn't open his images to see if he posted the details... I assume they must be dead or were refrigerated.

Precarious, that reminds me...when are you going to get up early so that you can photograph some dew covered insects?

 

[patrickfraser]

COOLNESS!

 

[yeatzee]

I was gunna say, wait a second those are johns images! hahahaha

That is one cool cat! I've never seen anything like that.

I looked at that guy's images on his website, and he has some amazing macro and extreme macro images. But I can't believe the number of exposures he uses in some of his stacks. He must be using an automated device to do that. I didn't open his images to see if he posted the details... I assume they must be dead or were refrigerated.

Precarious, that reminds me...when are you going to get up early so that you can photograph some dew covered insects?

Nope he uses a newport linear stage like me. He does both early morning stacks of living subjects and stacks of dead subjects (that does NOT make it suddenly easy to do....) as well as the standard macro's.

John's really one of the best there is at macro photography

 

[sporeworld]

Isn't that the thing they put in Chekov's ear in "Wraith of Khan"...?

 

[lunarstorm]

Isn't that the thing they put in Chekov's ear in "Wraith of Khan"...?

lol! :devil: