Puss moth over nearly a year

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Puss moth over nearly a year

Post by tpe »

This is part of several hundred shots over nearly a year. The larvae here is about 2mm long. The reason they are here is mostly due to Nikonuser on this forum who explained a little about the lifecycle, what speeds it up slows it down and generally affects captive bread bought eggs here http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... =puss+moth .

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There were nearly 11 months between the last picture above and the first below. We had just about given up hope that anything would come of it.




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Today we got the final stage and this is the first time we could see the whole cycle. It was quite a releif and very exciting for the family to see the first emrege :).

We hope that there are going to be more and hopefully different sexes.

Tim

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Post by Cyclops »

Marvellous little creature,and a great sequence!!
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Post by PanoGuy »

Nice set of images Tim! I particularly like the colors in #4 and how you captured the action in #5. I wish #3 had some more DOF towards the front of the head, but imagine it wasn't easy to capture while it was eating.

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