Colorpilllar oops Caterpillar I mean.

Posted by ConvexClix (Mumbai, India) on 18 December 2007 in Animal & Insect.

This little cattie was flaunting its exuberant colors on a leaf in my garden. How beautiful an insect. After a lot of random googling I think it is a Cecropia Caterpillar in 5th Stage :D It may not be the most accurate description of this cattie.

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Comments (11)

Mayur Shah from Mumbai, India

Beautiful !

18 Dec 2007 9:23am

sona from India

brilliant boss!!!!

18 Dec 2007 11:39am

Ricky from Edmonton, Canada

Sometimes you can only but admire God's creations...

18 Dec 2007 1:19pm

MJ from Delaware, United States

I love insects and that is a real colorful one. Thanks for the view

18 Dec 2007 3:41pm

Nicole from Atlanta, United States

You must share how you got this shot! The colors are so vivid and your lighting is great!

18 Dec 2007 4:37pm

@Nicole: My sister found it crawling on our garden spray pipe. It was so strikingly beautiful. But the pipe was an ugly background for this gorgeous :D I got it to a big washed leaf :) raised it to sunlight and took the shot. Although the original image was somewhat bigger and had other objects in frame so I cropped it to highlight the lil hero :D

Japanalia from Yokohama, Japan

My goodness!!! All the details are in place and the colours.....oh!.....looks like a piece of jewelry! You make it appear attractive and interesting..........well, let's forget about the reality!
Gabriela

18 Dec 2007 11:49pm

@Japanalia: I had seen many caterpillars before this but none so beautiful and colorful. It was absolutely gorgeous. Am sure it would turn out to be some beautiful butterfly someday :P

creatist from India

sheer beauty..what hues... really a colopillar :P and the love the greens with a blue shot in it :)

19 Dec 2007 12:18am

ashima from India

awesome shot and a lil hero indeed....beautiful creation of nature and brilliantly shot!!!

19 Dec 2007 4:01am

osis from India

so lovely a creation of the almighty... and most people would react to a caterpillar as "ugh!!"... anyways thanks to people like you the world appreciates the beauty pf these oft neglected things, too...

19 Dec 2007 4:48am