Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: ScreaminScott on March 04, 2015, 11:23:07 am
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Here are some other images of the Hickory Horned Devil Caterpillar that I started a thread about a few days back...Had found this caterpillar this past Summer & was lucky enough to get images of the first several instars. Note the physical differnces between the 1st & 2nd instars. On the 3rd instar, they were that brownish color, but then changed to black. After this point, I was no longer able to find it.
1st Instar
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5589/14926128632_07a0ffef2d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oJYj2o)Hickory Horned Devil - Citheronia regalis (https://flic.kr/p/oJYj2o) by ScreaminScott (https://www.flickr.com/people/57915950@N00/), on Flickr
2nd to 3rd instar (note that after the metamorphosis, the caterpillar is kinda brownish)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3845/15001468582_1854b4b8b4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oRCrY3)Metamorphosis (https://flic.kr/p/oRCrY3) by ScreaminScott (https://www.flickr.com/people/57915950@N00/), on Flickr
3rd instar (here it was changing to black)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3848/14806557669_95c374e982_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oyptK4)Hickory Horned Devil #2 (https://flic.kr/p/oyptK4) by ScreaminScott (https://www.flickr.com/people/57915950@N00/), on Flickr
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Wow, really amazing caterpillars! And nicely photographed as well!!
I need to focus my vision this year and see if I can spot more than only the standard type caterpillars where I live. Can't recall seeing any as exotic as those you've posted.
Well done, thanks for posting!
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All lovely, but the weird structures and colours, and two-dimensionality, in #1 are intriguing.