Caterpillar

[ericadawn16]

There was a caterpillar on the car in front of us so I took advantage.

Comments

[elvenforever.livejournal.com]

What a cool image! You have incrredible zoom!! :)

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

It does help when you get out of the car and then place the camera about an inch or two away from the subject, hehe.

Still, thank you, most are shocked to discover it's a camera phone.

[elvenforever.livejournal.com]

Aha! Took a VERY good picture. What kind of phone?

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Samsung Memoir from T-Mobile

http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/samsung-memoir-t929-black/4505-6454_7-33516609.html (http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/samsung-memoir-t929-black/4505-6454_7-33516609.html)

It'll be three years old in July and I wish it could live forever.

[elvenforever.livejournal.com]

Sweet! If you want a standalone camera combined with a phone, this seems to be the way to go. :)

[bk_forever]

=D

I love caterpillars! That one looks pretty big. I hope it held on tight and didn't fall off!

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I took it off the car and put it on a tree when I was done with the photos. However, after we went to Target and came back, there were so many crawling over our tires that we weren't able to save them all.

:(

[bk_forever]

At least you rescued as many as you could! =D

[surreal-44.livejournal.com]

You should go here: http://www.whatsthatbug.com/ and see if they know what kind of caterpillar it is, and what it will turn into! :-)

[cp.livejournal.com]

It's a tussock moth caterpillar! I'm a bit of a bug geek myself. :) Unfortunately in this case (as with many moths, really) the caterpillar is more interesting than the adult moth. :)

http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/foltz/eny3541/Tussock/Orgyia.htm

[cp.livejournal.com]

Cool shot, too--the light makes for an interesting background effect!

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Both for the compliment and finding it for me.

[surreal-44.livejournal.com]

I wondered if that's what it was, but I wasn't entirely certain. Do you ever go on that website? It's amazing (and terrifying! Bugs scare me) to see the variety of creatures that live in this world.

[cp.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I like that site and bugguide.net, which also has a good ID Request section. Nothing to be afraid of with most bugs, though! Really, only a small fraction bite or sting, and an even tinier amount can do any actual damage to you (barring an extreme allergy, of course). The variety really is amazing, and the world just wouldn't get along without 'em.

But I'll still freely admit that I vastly prefer butterflies and dragonflies and ladybugs to ants and termites and cockroaches. :)

[surreal-44.livejournal.com]

I'm not afraid of being bitten. -grin- I just find them scary to look at.

But I am a catch-and-release gal, or at least, "Ignore until they hopefully go away" gal.

As long as I can't really see them, they don't bother me too much, lol!

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I've always loved bugs and things. I'd get so annoyed at the other girls trying to tell me how "girls don't play with bugs, that's a boy thing."

[mediate89.livejournal.com]

My babysitter's kids and I used to build sand paradises for the caterpillars we captured. That's how we spent our summer days. :p

[corrielle.livejournal.com]

What a cool little guy! (I too have stopped in my tracks to take a picture of a caterpillar. Mine was crawling across the sidewalk at school. I'm sure anyone who saw me thought I was a little odd.)

[mediate89.livejournal.com]

We get a lot of fat black and orange fuzzy ones crawling around here.

[mediate89.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, how adorable.

[mediate89.livejournal.com]

lol, and I used the wrong icon for my comment. Oh well, LL is adorable too. It works.

[develish1]

wow, that came out really well :)

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Thank YOU!