Extreme sharp and detailed microcosmic portrait of a garden tiger moth Arctia caja taken with two lenses MC Jupiter-37A, which was made in 1985, and a retro lens Zenitar-M 1,7/50, made in 1982, as one lens, stacked from 203 shots into one very sharp photo. Magnificafion is 2,5x. This photo is a part of a series of macro portraits of butterflies, moths and their caterpillars. "The garden tiger moth or great tiger moth (Arctia caja) is a moth of the family Erebidae. Arctia caja is a northern species found in the US, Canada, and Europe.The moth prefers cold climates with temperate seasonality, as the larvae overwinter, and preferentially chooses host plants that produce pyrrolizidine alkaloids. However, garden tiger moths are generalists, and will pick many different plants to use as larval host plants. The garden tiger moth has a wingspan of 45 to 65 millimeters (1.8 to 2.6 in). The design of the wings vary; the front wings are brown with a white pattern (which is sometimes missing), the back wings are orange with a pattern of black dots. There are many aberrations (pattern and colour variants), partly obtained artificially and partly by chance. Oberthür, a French entomologist, mentions about 500 different variants shown in 36 figures. Seitz gives an account of some named aberrations." (Wikipedia)
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