p.1 #1 · Larva of Scarlet Tiger Callimorpha dominula
My wife asked me if I had removed a caterpillar from her Streptocarpus plant. I said that I didn't know it was there. The next day I spotted it myself and took quite a few pictures.
It was on one of the lower leaves and the many, large, strap-shaped leaves made framing and lighting the larva difficult. Up to triple flash was used and, at times, fill flash on either side or both sides was switched off, to avoid green light from obstructing leaves featuring.
EM-1 (Manual Mode 1/250 second ISO 400), extension, Printing Nikkor 150mm, FOV 17mm wide, f11, hand-held. (I had to take a short rest after each shot, due to the weight).
With the reared-up larva I had only time for one shot of each.
There is a cross-eye stereo which could be more effective but the frames were not shot for this purpose.
All images have been cropped. The larva was ca 15mm long.
p.1 #5 · Larva of Scarlet Tiger Callimorpha dominula
Thanks, everyone.
It was very still for a long time then started roaming around the leaf. As it did so, it passed various OOF pale plant remains (dead flowers. etc.) which were distractions, causing the images to be rejected.
