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Uploaded: 04/18/22 7:05 AM GMT
Moth
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The butterfly gallery was as close to this as anything here. I found this little feller on a lamp at a house I was inspecting the other day and I had to share him here:) I love the details in his antenna. This critter it's about 1-1/4" long. Thanks for your comments.

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::corngrowth
04/18/22 10:47 AM GMT
Bruce, not identical, but pretty similar to THIS ONE.
You call it a 'little feller', but as it has the size of the by me captured one, then you are very humble, Buddy, 😁 !
An amazing capture however!
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.palral
04/21/22 12:41 AM GMT
Bruce.....I'm not one to tell your your business, but I believe that this is a rare striped, horned pigmy bat. I have one just like it that I shot with my bow and arrow. I took it to a taxidermist and have the head mounted on the wall of my gun room.

Roger
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::Nikoneer
04/25/22 9:40 PM GMT
The nature of the antennae on this one indicates that it's a male. The feathery construction of a moth's antennae gives them a much better sense of smell than their butterfly cousins. All of those tiny hairs means more surface area to cover with smell receptors, and that makes moths much better at picking up odors (one of the reasons moths respond overtly to the strong odor of cedar). While the extremely narrow Depth of Field you're using here, Bruce, results in some spots on the moth not being in perfect focus, the more detailed portions are, and that's what counts (DoF manipulation in digital cameras is much more difficult to achieve than in the old film cameras--it's a give-and-take proposal, switching from film to digital, as we all have learned). Those parts that are a little soft have details large enough where it doesn't really matter. With the possible exception of low light, this is an excellent offering of natural history.

-nik
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