Never Flown - _TNY_6373P6

Here is a female scarlet mormon (Papilio rumanzovia) still drying and hardening her wings before making her virgin flight.

 

She has not long ago climbed out of one of the chrysalides above her after completing the metamorphosis from caterpillar.

 

This phot is made up of six separate exposures which I stitched together into one 163 megapixel image using Kolor Autopano Giga.

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