Photo friday 8.2.2008: What is that?
Feb 10th, 2008 by lavonardo
This week’s photo friday challenge is what is that?
My take on the subject is the attached image, a peppermint stick insect (Megacrania batesii), a rare critter from Queensland that just happened to be around on a rainforest walkabout in Cape Tribulation. The coloring has not been altered, the animal is shockingly turquoise in color, with splashes of other bright colors across the body.
The wikipedia article on this animal is a stub (but does feature two good images), fortunately the curious peppermint stick insect is the subject of many good pages.
Sadly the image did not turn out that well, the very low lighting conditions under the canopy and a shaky hand combined to lack of sharpness in the photograph.
(This article is very environment-friendly, being 99% recycled from an old photo thursday challenge.)
What an amazing colour and strange-looking insect
Thank you for the positive comment.
I’m pretty happy how the colors turned out, but would definitely have preferred to take several shots of the elusive critter to ensure that at least one would have decent focus.