Levitation
Found this Swallowtail Caterpillar starting to prepare its chrysalis on a leaf on a tree in our garden … it had just started to spin its threads and was suspended above the leaf ..
Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Papilio
Species: Papilio cresph
Location: Pierce County, Georgia – USA
PHOTO UNTOUCHED
Camera Info: Fuji Finepix s700
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MKWhite
“Use the force, soon to be a butterfly Skywalker” Great capture :)
Cimmerrian
great shot Jocelyn !
pinkyjain
LOL. Awesome Jocelyn
George Lenz
nice find and comp
Steve Chapple
Great find, looks amazing!
RichardV
Great title and capture, Jocelyn.
Magaret Meintjes
this is fantastic ! I had almost the same experience with a citrus swallotail that i found on my orange tree! great find and capture!
mjaniceanne
What a great find! You can catch it when it is drying its wings! I’ll be looking!
EnVee
too cool!! what a great capture
Carla Jandelle...
i wouldn’t be surprised about the color variations…especially for defensive purposes…very cool levitation image!
Damian
Cool shot, that floating look is great.
handprintz
It almost looks comical with that marking there on its back,and indeed it does look like it is levitating !! wonderful capture
RickF
Great capture!
Lucindawind
wow how cool !!!
machandel
Hot shot! I like it´s “face”.
Wanda Lechene
very cute capture
zacco
wicked capture ,great write up to
andreasphoto
cool, captured my eye
Graeme Pettit ...
Super photo in an unusual pose
Darren Post
That looks so cool, love that eye pattern. Fantastic detail. :-)
IngerMargrete
Amazing – a really nice capture.
gummyworldlover
Great capture! Its eye loooks soo unique
Cheri Perry
Outstnading capture and write up…I have learned something new again today. This is fantastic. You get some of the best Macro shots…. :)
Jonathan Bartlett
That is so cool!!!
nancie
this is wild i love it!!
knightingail
wow such a precious find!
Lois Bryan
WOW!!!!! LOVE it!!!!! Great, great shot … and soooo unusual!!! well done!!!
DottieDees
This is just amazing!
Carlos Teófilo
Magnific work.
Cornelia Togea
great shot!
greenpeg
great capture and find…..........well done
Charles Dobbs ...
Nice capture!
Jonicool
What a cool find and capture!
hannibalannie
Marvelous, the mock “eyes” add to the overall look
Krys Bailey
What an amazing find and wonderful capture! ;o)
P3T3
Wonderful find and amazing shot.
WatscapePhoto
Tremendous image, Jocelyn. Excellent photography
Vanessa Barklay
What a funny looking crysalis! Nice photo, love your info details, you might be able to help some people in our (soon to be) ID section of Bug Hunt, thanks for joining!!
Vanessa Barklay
valandsnake
amazing shot, well done and congratulations
Antanas
great capture
Cheryl Lunde
This is so surreal. Great capture and congrats on the feature. Thank you also for adding me to your watchlist.
Barbara Brown
An amazing find and fantastic shot!!
Arve Bettum
Is this normal behavior? It is a magnificent shot!!
LumenLux
This is a nice job on such an unusual moment. Thanks for the photo, thanks for the educationl.
armene
blilliant capture
Matsumoto
Excellent capture.
Meeli Sonn
Wow. Congratulations for this wonderful feature. Well deserved. Catepillar is excellent
Nature's Realm
another cool shot…Dennis
gaylene
what a very clever shot – well captured
Themis 5 days ago
Good find, nice take, love the caption ;-)