Peter Dexter
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He said to Alice after taking the hookah out of his mouth...
He said to Alice after taking the hookah out of his mouth...
Thank you Asher. I believe it is a Sphinx Moth caterpillar. It is feeding on leaves of Brugmansia sp. which are toxic (this is the plant the knock out drug scopolamine is made from). It may be using the same strategy as the Monarch butterfly, that is eating poisonous plants to make yourself inedible by birds.
Perhaps one is sacrificed to save the others.
Thank you Nicolas. Pretty close to full frame. Although the 24 1.8 I use on my Sony a6000 is ostensibly a landscape lens it lets me focus quite close to the subject. The caterpillar was fairly large at 7cm long. I'm curious about those little yellow horns and whether their venomous.