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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar

This is a discussion on Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar within the Macro forums, part of the Showcase category; Found this on a Magnolia Leaf. According to Bug Guide its an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Papilio glaucus. This is a ...
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar - 05-21-2010, 09:24 PM

Found this on a Magnolia Leaf. According to Bug Guide its an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Papilio glaucus. This is a stacked image made up of 5 shots taken with Canon XSi, Canon 100mm f./2.8 Macro, 31mm extension tubes, Canon MT-24EX Macro Twin Lites (1/2 power both heads), on a tripod. Shooting info: 1/500 sec, f/11, ISO 200. Created with Zerene Stacker.


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05-21-2010, 09:32 PM

Nice find, Tom. Keep an eye on it and maybe you'll catch the metamorphosis to a butterfly.

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05-21-2010, 10:34 PM

Great shot Tom & great job on the stack.

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05-22-2010, 06:26 AM

Never seen one of these... I hope you get some photos of the butterfly because they are beauties!!

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05-22-2010, 08:14 AM

Yea looks like it's mid-way between stages...really kewl!

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