Beatuiful butterfly. It looks like a Polygonia satyrus, or Satyr Angelwing, but there are a few related nymphs that look close. Go to http://pick5.pick.uga.edu/mp/20q?guide=Nymphs and see if you can poke around to find it. My dial up is too slow to look, and my butterfly books are at school. Aram >From: David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [LRflex] Macro work - the hard way! >Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 00:50:00 -0700 > > >Yesterday, I showed my cowbird photo - for which I got some nice >comments, off list. > >Whilst I was waiting for one of the cowbirds to move to a branch >where I could get a clean shot, I noticed this little critter land on >a pussy-willow. The light was right and he (she?) was just at the >minimum focusing range of the 400 Telyt & 2x converter. > >So close, in fact, that I racked the lens to it's closest focus and >then rocked the camera, in proper fashion, to focus on the beast. > >http://www.telyt.50megs.com/unknown_moth.htm > >My problem is I'm so illiterate when it comes to bugs, I don't know >if it's a moth or a butterfly, let alone what kind! > >All help, comments and, yes, criticism appreciated. > >Thanks for looking. >--- > >David Young, >Logan Lake, CANADA > >Personal Web-site at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt >Limited Edition Prints at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/prints.htm >Leica Reflex Forum web-page: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm > > > > >------ >Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm >Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/