November 2007 Entries - Immature Stages

Post by **Padfield** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:24 pm

To get ova to the other side, of course!

Guy

Gwenhwyfar · Post by **Gwenhwyfar** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:25 pm

Sycamore Moth

Bryan H · Post by **Bryan H** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:06 pm

padfield wrote:To get ova to the other side, of course!

Guy

I dunno!

I try to elicit from Martin what might be a groundbreaking observation of the behaviour of an immature stage of Mimas tiliae, and all you can do, Guy, is make a silly joke!

Sorry about that, Martin.

Bryan

Post by **Pete Eeles** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:12 pm

I agree - very silly. I personally thought he'd gone to visit his flat mate

Cheers,

- Pete

Lance · Post by **Lance** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:08 am

testing its horn perhaps?

m_galathea · Post by **m_galathea** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:22 am

Ok, another moth I'm afraid. This time Lackey Moths and their larval foodweb. Taken close to Freathy on the Cornish coastpath. 12th May 2007

Charles Nicol · Post by **Charles Nicol** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:34 pm

Bryan H wrote:Martin,

Why did the lime hawk moth larva cross the road?

Bryan

to meet his squash partner !!

charles

ps for more caterpillar action visit

http://www.flickr.com/groups/428124@N20/

COLIN BAKER · Post by **COLIN BAKER** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:59 pm

My first sighting of a grayling ova being deposited.
The female almost arches her body through 180 degress to deposit the ova which is surely unique in our butterflies.

Taken with the Fuji S7000 and Raynox DCR-150 macroscan conversion lens 1.5X

Cheers

Colin

Bryan H · Post by **Bryan H** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:55 pm

Charles Nicol wrote:
Bryan H wrote:Martin,

Why did the lime hawk moth larva cross the road?

Bryan

to meet his squash partner !!

charles

/quote]

That's Eeles, Nicol, Padfield - outside the Head's study first thing in the morning! And you can wipe that grin off your face, Gruditch!

Lance: loss of privileges for a month!

Now, what was the theme of this month's competition?

Lance · Post by **Lance** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 1:03 pm

Sorry Sir!

roundwood123 · Post by **roundwood123** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:25 pm

My entry for this month, Peacock cats from Devon in June this year.

Ian Pratt · Post by **Ian Pratt** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:18 pm

55bloke · Post by **55bloke** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:38 am

Looks like butterfly catterpillars are kinda camera-shy!! Here's another moth!
Photographed this splendidly furry fellow on Oct 29th last year at the Blackburn Meadows Nature Reserve here in Sheffield. Using my Olympus C750 UZ on macro:-

Post by **Pete Eeles** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:29 pm

Denise wrote:Ok. So I've changed to this pic of a freshly hatched Speckled Wood drying it's wings.

Denise

Hi Denise - I don't want to be a stickler, but this isn't an immature stage

Cheers,

- Pete

TW · Post by TW » Sun Dec 02, 2007 5:34 pm

Here is one late entry to this competition from Finland. I will continue with my last month species - so here is Apollos larva on it's food plant.

November 2007 Entries - Immature Stages

Grayling Ova

Pale tussock moth caterpillar