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Side View (Fig Sphinx) - Pachylia ficus
Copyright © 2006 Kort

Side View (Fig Sphinx) - Pachylia ficus
Boca Raton, West Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
June 11, 2006
Size: 1.5 inches
Isn't this a magnificent moth? We let it go this evening and after never having flown in its life, a few flaps of it's wings and it was flying like a pro!

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Bright green caterpillar - Pachylia ficus Bright green caterpillar (now orange backed) - Pachylia ficus Bright green caterpillar (now orange backed) - Pachylia ficus Pupa opened! (Pachylia ficus Fig Sphinx) - Pachylia ficus Top View, drying wings (Fig Sphinx) - Pachylia ficus Side View (Fig Sphinx) - Pachylia ficus
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Contributed by Kort on 11 June, 2006 - 8:49pm

Wow!
Very cool sequence. And you captured it step by step. Nice work!

(What's your camera and lens? These shots are such clear close-ups. My favorite are the open crysalis and the first shot of adult, showing the white tips on wings, but they're all good.)

Keep at it!
… Jack Connor, 31 May, 2007 - 7:13am login or register to post comments

 
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Hi Jack. Thanks for the kind words. The camera I used here was an Olympus C8080wz prosumer digicam. You would be hard pressed to find a better lense/sensor combo on anything less than a DSLR.
… Kort, 31 May, 2007 - 8:17am login or register to post comments

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