A pretty little caterpillar that will give you a nasty sting if you bump its urticating spines. It turns into a totally drab little brown moth. Nikon 200 mm Micro, tripod, Velvia, exposure data not recorded.

-- Peter May (peter.may@stetson.edu), July 19, 1999

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Quite a lovely little caterpillar. The bright green on the body looks a little overexposed to me -- this looks like one of those subjects with such a wide range of tonality that you can't capture both the highlights and shadows well. It also doesn't look really sharp. I think part of this is the small DOF and part of it is probably the scan.

-- John Sullivan (sullivan@spies.com), July 19, 1999.

What a great subject! It does need more depth of field though. Also, it looks to me like the plane of sharpest focus like in front of most of the subject.

-- Pete Dickson (dickson.pn@pg.com), July 19, 1999.

What an interesting looking beast! I agree more depth of field would help. The bright area behind him is distracting - makes it look like a bizarre alien rocket blasting off a green runway!

-- George Bell (gibell@geocities.com), July 19, 1999.

Peter, what an interesting caterpillar. I have to agree with the others that it could use a bit more depth of field and a tad less exposure, but still a good shot. Caterpillars and moths are so fascinating when one stops to really look at them. Donna

-- Donna P. Bollenbach (cassidy@icubed.net), July 19, 1999.

Like the color theme!

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), July 23, 1999.