Sunday, August 21, 2011

Mutual Struggle

When I have a meal, I don't have to fight with it to eat it.  This female Fragile Forktail wasn't so lucky.  

While I was photographing her, she disappeared from my view and then reappeared with a bit of lime green lunch, which struggled so against being eaten that it flipped her on her side before she wrested control.

My Facebook friend Bill told me the strong green wonder is "a yummy inch worm (aka spanworm, looper, and measuring worm because of the way they move).  They are the larval stage of some kind of moths."

For my part, I enjoy moths too -- just not for lunch.

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