monarch caterpillar on milk weed

Posted by raven (parry sound, Canada) on 5 August 2008 in Animal & Insect.

Still stuns me that this caterpillar will become a Monarch butterfly and make its way from this island on Lake Huron all the way to Mexico for the winter.

Nikon D80
1/40 second
F/11.0
ISO 125
187 mm (35mm equiv.)