Pupating Common Crow Butterfly Sequence
Clearwing Swallowtail (Cressida cressida) Female
Reflected while on a branch over some water
Evening Brown Butterfly (Melanitis leda)
Clearwing Swallowtail (Cressida cressida) Male
Backlit
Pale Brown Hawk Moth
Feeding on a flower
Outback lepidopteran
Glasswing Butterfly - Acraea andromacha
Pale Triangle butterfly (Graphium eurypylus)
Orchard Swallowtail (Papilio aegeus)
Timber moth (Xyloryctidae sp) wing scales
It's hard to believe these scales are so colourful, on a moth Taken with my 10x microscope objective
Green Blotched Moth (Cosmodes elegans)
Stack of 53 photos
Alfred's feet
So my friends and I found a fairly big (~10cm) hairy caterpillar down in SA. They named it Alfred and we took it back to Brisbane with us to see what it turned into (we could feed it wattles at large it seemed). Live stack of 72 photos
Focus stack of 89 photos
Chequered Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio demoleus)
Common Crow Butterfly Chrysalis
Common Crow Butterfly Chrysalis 2
This is a second (different) chrysalis of the common crow butterfly, together these were two of four I was given by a friend, and this one alone was the chrome silver that they should normally be.
Parasitism.
Poor Alfred the hairy caterpillar had 10 parasitoid fly pupa in him!
Clearwing swallowtail (female)
Photographed in Fairfield, Brisbane 6/2/2015.
