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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Vapourer Moth Cocoon (Genuine)

I recently posted some images of moth eggs of another species under this name. That was a looper moth. This is the genuine thing.

The bad news is that the eggs had hatched a long time ago.

I was photographing some slime mould fruiting bodies on a rotting log, turning it (fortunately) carefully, when I saw this. The white, shiny things are parts of the eggs shells, the pink, egg-cup-like, ones are those where just the tops have been removed by emerging larvae.

The greyish webbing on the right is the cocoon. I turned this over and opened it up a bit for the later images but the empty pupa is as I found it.

Only the first image has been cropped. As the eggs were disappointing, I have included a cross-eye stereo pair, looking into the cocoon at the pupal remains.(Lean away to view).

EM-1, Kiron 105mm (low magnification) and reversed Schneider HM 40mm at f16, triple free-standing RC TTL flash, hand-held.

Harold

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Oct 19, 2015 at 10:50 AM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Vapourer Moth Cocoon (Genuine)

This is really cool. Something I don't see here often. Thanks for the explanation of the images.
Harsha

Oct 19, 2015 at 09:01 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Vapourer Moth Cocoon (Genuine)

Very interesting Harold ~ Ron

Oct 20, 2015 at 07:27 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Vapourer Moth Cocoon (Genuine)

Thanks, Both of you.

Harold

Oct 20, 2015 at 08:37 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Vapourer Moth Cocoon (Genuine)

Another extremely interesting set Harold , something I have never seen.

Birdie

Oct 20, 2015 at 04:09 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Vapourer Moth Cocoon (Genuine)

Looks like broken eggs, I would never have guessed what it is

Morris

Oct 20, 2015 at 05:53 PM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Vapourer Moth Cocoon (Genuine)

Thanks, Birdie and Morris.

I think my mind was primed to see this.

Harold

Oct 21, 2015 at 12:20 AM


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