Elepant hawk larva

[John Robinson]

Interestingly the food plant of these is usually Rose bay Willow Herb but in the past few years they have taken a liking to fuschias in gardens. I used to get dozens of phone calls from people with these "monsters" in their hanging baskets !
D7000
Sigma 50mm macro
200 ISO
125th @f11
2 stacked images. ( Some caterpillars willstop still long enough !!
Slight crop. Combined CZM
Tripod /release.
Cheers
JohnR
few small stacking glitches on the staemens tidied up.

[Kaushik Balakumar]

Amazing details on the caterpillar. But I see lot of funny processing artifacts around the edges of the flower.
And especially to the left just below the caterpillar.
What is in the BG ?

[John Robinson]

Hi Kaushik
Maybe another stacking glitch I missed, or could have been a bit of the OOF flower bud in the back so I,veremoved it
Cheers
John

[stuart wanuck]

such clarity!

[Ron Conlon]

There is a nice contrast between the graphic effect of the simple colors of the fuchsia and background and the dark, looming Godzilla bug that ate it. The colors could be tamed a bit, but on the other hand, it one reason I keep viewing this one...