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Photo #22305: Zerynthia polyxena

Pupa

Zerynthia polyxena

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Photo, and identified by: Igor Sakhno. Image without retouching at the website

Date and time, location shooting/catching: 2013-06-03 00:00:00, Kharkiv

Photographer's comment: An interesting point: when the pupa is already hardening, it makes a certain movement of the body, as a result of which the web belt, sliding over the head, is held up by special hooks and wound on them. The pupa is attached from two ends - for the cremaster and for the head hooks (as shown in parallel photos).

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16.11.2013 15:12, Igor Sakhno

This could be taken as a video, theoretically. But I wasn't ready for they behaved like that and it happened quite quickly.

05.06.2013 10:49, Irina Nikulina

Igor, thanks, that's interesting indeed! Have you ever tried to take a video of this "move" (if camera has macro function)?

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