I’m posting this for Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge. The second Monday of the month is Macro … I just squeeze in. I’m using the Nokia Lumia 520 windows phone for these photos. Cropped and optimized, otherwise untouched. I hope my images are macro enough. I can’t get much closer with my phone camera.
clinging to the midrib
I’m making the most of these caterpillars while they’re here. I’m rather taken by their nasty-looking forelegs! No wonder they have such a good grip on the vine leaves.
Perhaps I should have titled this post Caterpillar Feet & the FINAL theme.
You might have noticed that I’ve messed with the theme – again. It was Twenty-Fourteen for a day or two, with the lovely big featured images, but it just wasn’t practical for tablet navigation.
upside down is no problem at all
topsy-turvy
Australian Grapevine Moth caterpillar
(thumbnail of the featured image)
Just click on any images you would like to see bigger.
My resident blackbird shot out of the grapevine this morning as I went out my side door. I wonder if it might gobble up the smaller caterpillars. As they strip the leaves, they do expose themselves. I’ll keep an eye out.
Thanks for looking. Have a good day. 🙂
Check out Sally’s interesting post and images for this week here (Macro & Abstraction of a Ginko Leaf)
Christine R 
What an interesting caterpillar–they are fascinating creatures. Your capture gives a close up of its patina of graphic designs. Happy Photo Challenge.
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Thanks Sally. I couldn’t remember which page to post the link to. I’ll take that first one out.
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the markings on the caterpillar make it look a bit like an accordian and that you would be able to squeeze it in and out.
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😮 They’ll never look the same to me again after you’ve put that thought in my head, Sue. LOL.
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What fun to see this guy (gal?) so close! Great catches.
janet
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Thanks, Janet. I call them all he. 🙂
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I do, too, but I always wonder how you can tell the difference.
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There usually is some small way to tell. I know some bees have an extra stripe or two on their bodies, and some birds are duller in comparison to the male. 🙂
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But no way to easily tell from a photo.
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