Hair pencils

[Prajwal J Ullal]

ID: Cucumber moth

Experimented Low DOF with the elegant and majestic visitor at home. It kept on twitching its tail and tried to stay calm, not even bothered by the light of Flash

EXIF:
Canon 550D
Canon 100mm macro
F/3.5
Shutterspeed 1/200
ISO 100
Handheld, External and inbuilt Flash used

Location: Dahisar

[Roopak Gangadharan]

nice... a take on the otherside..:D
TFS
roopak

[Mrudul Godbole]

Interesting :). Males use hair-pencils in courtship behaviors with females, the pheromones excreted by the hair-pencils help to attract females as well as repellent to conspecific males. Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Since you fired the built-in flash, the top portion is bright and the lower portion has shadows. Looks like some kind of flower. :)