Low-res Texture - _TNY_6462

Here's one of my favourite finds and shots of 2020: A very surprised-looking triple-stripe piercer (Grapholita compositella) on a hazel leaf.

 

When I found this one, it was doing a really funky little dance and was running in circles on the leaf. No idea what it was hoping to achieve. I managed to capture a short video of it running around - have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51084354421/ for that.

 

This is a very small moth with a wingspan of less than 10 mm (.4") which means the lenth of it is a little more than half of that so I was lucky to have the MP-E65mm on the camera (this is at 3.3:1 magnification).

 

Looking at it, don't you agree it looks like it has loaded the textures for the wings at way too low resolution? Natural pixel art!

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Uploaded on March 30, 2021
Taken on July 1, 2020