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Attracted a rather late Red Admiral butterfly to my sugar honey sprayed camelia leaves the other day. It allowed me to get reasonably close with the MPE-65 lens. These have very hairy eyes !

Brian V.

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Nov 09, 2009 at 07:48 AM

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p.1 #2 · Red Admiral closeups

Fantastic images Brian.
Do you have any of the wing patterns?
Seems like 'our' supreme macro efforts concentrate solely on the eyes of our critters and a lot of the visual beauty is lost?
But from an inquiring mind, why do they have hairy eyeballs?
Bruce

Nov 09, 2009 at 08:22 AM

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p.1 #3 · Red Admiral closeups

Excellent sequence Brian

Nov 09, 2009 at 08:24 AM

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p.1 #4 · Red Admiral closeups

Thanks Bruce and John for the comments

Bruce - not got any good closeups of the wing patterns on this butterfly- they are normally fairly hard to close to - but one below, - have managed it a few times with comma butterflies which are a bit easier to get close to (see below).
Not actually seen any definitive evidence on the hairy eyeballs of some butterflies and other insects but it does seem to occur mostly in insects that come into close contact with pollen and i suspect it is a method of stopping pollen sticking to the eye surface - easier to clean off if it is on some hairs.

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Nov 09, 2009 at 08:37 AM

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p.1 #5 · Red Admiral closeups

Wow,
Those wing close-ups are insane! Kinda like fish scales and animal hairs all joined in one? Madness, but I would certainly bet there is a very valid reason for it?
BTW, the hairy eyeball theory that you have is certainly plausible. . .great idea.
Bruce

Nov 09, 2009 at 12:26 PM

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p.1 #6 · Red Admiral closeups

Last frame is gorgeous. By the by, its' 'tongue' appears to be pretty hairy too.

Kenny

Nov 09, 2009 at 02:02 PM

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p.1 #7 · Red Admiral closeups

Thanks Kenny

Brian v.

Nov 09, 2009 at 09:52 PM

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p.1 #8 · Red Admiral closeups

The pattern on the bf's eye is mesmerising.

Nov 09, 2009 at 10:01 PM

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p.1 #9 · Red Admiral closeups

GillR wrote:
The pattern on the bf's eye is mesmerising.
Thanks Gill

Brian v.

Nov 10, 2009 at 07:04 AM

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p.1 #10 · Red Admiral closeups

Great series, my favs are the last one, I like the abstract sense on that one, and the fourth, excellent close up work. Well done.

Nov 10, 2009 at 10:32 AM

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p.1 #11 · Red Admiral closeups

FerBatista wrote:
Great series, my favs are the last one, I like the abstract sense on that one, and the fourth, excellent close up work. Well done.

Thanks for looking and commenting

Brian v.

Nov 10, 2009 at 07:15 PM

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p.1 #12 · Red Admiral closeups

wow - great images, that last shot is like an electron microscope - super detail.

best

steve

Nov 10, 2009 at 09:59 PM

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p.1 #13 · Red Admiral closeups

Oh so very nice. Brian...the fidelity of these images are amazing!

-Roy

Nov 10, 2009 at 10:30 PM

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p.1 #14 · Red Admiral closeups

Thanks Steve and Roy for the comments

Brian v.

Nov 11, 2009 at 07:04 AM

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