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A series of microscope photographs of red spotted Jezebel wing featuring the colored wing scales.
A scarce summer butterfly frequenting flowering trees and mistletoe.
This insect has been captive bred (by myself) and is a well known visitor to fragrant flowering trees in Victoria during December and January.
Spotted on Dec 13, 2011
Submitted on Jan 13, 2012
9 Comments
I bred about 100 of these this year from eggs found on mistletoe ;)
Myema quandang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyema_quan...
When left to their own, most of these are predated by tiny wasps :(
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/165...
Thanks for your comments. I will be breeding these again this season.
Cool series, love the different view points.
Beautiful!
Great work.
Excellent toy... very useful.
(btw I was playing with some of your 'children' (Eurycnema goliath) last night - pleased to say they are healthy)
This was taken with a toy electronic microscope attachment on the computer. It magnifies 10x, 60x and 200x and those are the first three pics. DOF is poor but not bad for $50 (occasionally sold by Aldi)
Super photos martin. Have you got a new camera?
Amazing!