📷 Critters In My Garden - Mothman Comes For A Visit - Cossus Cossus Macro Photography
Mothman Comes For A Visit.
a cossus cossus moth hatched in my garden yesterday
I'm pretty sure it was trying to hypnotize me!
It had just hatched right before these images were taken.
It emerged from the soil in the middle of a footpath in my garden, so I picked it up and carried it to safety - in my tomato plant.
It was still drowsy and didn't fly off for a while, so I had a good chance to take some macro shots. I am still using the reversed-lens trick @stresskiller re-introduced to me, but this time I had a flash with me and the resulting images are much much sharper with the f-stop at 16.
I have seen a bunch of their kind in their caterpillar state before! They are crazy huge (3-4") alien-like creatures! I'll have to take a picture for you next time I see one, but that will likely be next year in spring, so in the meantime here's a link to the wikimedia image.
hand for scale
it's cocoon in the ground
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have a trippy cossus cossus gif for a treat!
every day in the garden is a day well spent!
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see practice does help :) this looks a lot better then last time already , keep practicing and you might be a macro jedi one day :) resteemed
getting there... though in the long run I'll need some different glass
Very nice shots. I appreciate that you find the beauty of nature in such a "small" thing like a moth.
thank you!
I am surprised there is no googly eyes on the tomatoes :D
Hate moths, but the last shot is freaking awesome!
there will be googly tomatoes sooner or later, heh!
yeah... that stare in the last shot... creepy :P
Very! I hope I will never meet any of them from that close. Yuk...
Why nobody photographs mice? They are so cute :)
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That gif is very trippy indeed!
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Very sharp! very nice! I like it. upvoted
Excellent click
Very beautiful photography
👌👌👌🌷 Macro photography
thanks a heap!
He's a nice one. Not creepy at all 😀 I've seen that species when I used to live in Scotland.
heh... you found him!
I found that stare he put on a bit creepy... and I don't know about nice... I'm sure he has no ill intentions but his kind is doing quite some damage to the trees in the garden... but it's nature's way, I won't interfere!
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