Emperor Swallowtail

[TobyMac]

I have been watching this emperor swallowtail caterpillar living in our lemon tree for a while now. It's happily munching away at the leaves and growing at an impressive rate. In these two shots it's showing off its impressive little defence mechanism which is also accompanied by a very unfomfortable smell by the way.

Macro23-3 by Tobias Weber, on Flickr

Macro23-2 by Tobias Weber, on Flickr

[Wavelength]

So lovely, cute..

[Ziggy]

Cool looking critter.

[selig1656]

Pretty cool great colors and details are sharp , good for a sci fi movie , The Giant Critter .

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured, has a festive look to it.

[Geoff F]

Good shots and a very nice 'expression' on its face in the second image.

[IzzieK]

Festive looking critter...all it needs now are some Chrissie lights.

[John 2]

A couple of good clear shots.

[FootLoose]

Good work, Toby. The 2nd is a beauty. Good pose on the caterpillar and I like the gradient at teh bottom of frame, although I guess it is possibly a blurred branch in the background. But the green, red and blue-magenta combine in a pleasing pallet.