My, What Big Antennae You Have! by TwoPynts

Photography • Macro • posted on Jun 07, 2006

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"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing." -Christopher Fry

Keeping with my recent insect theme, I decided to post another of my garden denizens. I photographed this one last evening at dusk, sitting on my Angel Trumpet plant. Not as impressive as the previous dragonflies, but it has some neat antennae. That is one reason for the large image size as well, I wanted to show of more of the detail. Happy hump-day! ----- White-Tipped Black ~ Hodges #6616 Species: Melanchroia chephise This larvae of this moth is known as the Snowbush Spanworm and is of the inchworm family. It ranges from Florida to Texas and south to Paraguay. It prefers dry habitats and its larvae feed on plants in the spurge family. ----- Many thanks for your copacetic comments on my last upload, Garden Gargoyle.

----- Olympus C-8080WZ & PhotoshopCS. (640)

Comments (39)

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Cosme..D..Churruca

6:03AM | Thu, 08 June 2006

Alucinante criatura ! Like a lot !

Blutak

6:09AM | Thu, 08 June 2006

Brilliant clear photo. Detail and POV are excellent.

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odie

7:06AM | Thu, 08 June 2006

Wow....awesome detail. :0)

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CDBrugg

7:30AM | Thu, 08 June 2006

what a beauty!!!

FuzzyShadows

8:50AM | Thu, 08 June 2006

Fantastic shot. Its like she has feathers on her head!

Hopalong

8:57AM | Thu, 08 June 2006

Spiff. Consider, for example, the scrofulous no account Samuel Finley Breeze Morse, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1791. Educated at Phillips Academy and graduating from Yale in 1810, Morse lived in England from 1811 to 1815, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1813. Morse spent the next ten years as an itinerant artist and portraitist. In 1832 he was appointed Professor of Painting and Sculpture at the University of the City of New York and on his voyage home Morse overheard the shipboard conversation on electromagnets that gave rise to his invention of the telegraph and with it Morse Code (abstracted, with extensive revision and editing from: home.clara.net/rod.beavon/samuel.htm). What in the world does that have to do with moths and Rendersoity, not even to mention American "civilization", hehe. Dash dash dash dot dot dot....

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Margana

2:28PM | Thu, 08 June 2006

'The better to feel you with,my dear!'...If that's what they do with them...lol...I really don't know what they do with them,they could hear with them for all I know!Amazing capture Mr.D!Wow.brilliant shot my friend.Thanks for sharing this with us.I haven't seen one like that before.-PS Sorry for the late comment.You know how 'tis...-M ;^)

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