{"id":8853,"date":"2024-08-20T19:06:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8853"},"modified":"2024-08-20T19:06:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:06:21","slug":"poplar-hawk-moth-caterpillar-laothoe-populi-in-ultra-violet-fluorescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8853","title":{"rendered":"Poplar Hawk-moth Caterpillar (Laothoe populi) in Ultra violet fluorescence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One evening recently I walked around our small garden with my UV torch to see what fluoresced and was surprised to see this caterpillar – it stood out because the fluorescence was so bright. I had to research the name as I am no expert at this (I think the identification is OK). It was on the leaves at the top of a small apple tree. This was difficult to photograph as there was a slight breeze moving the leaves and the caterpillar itself was moving. These are some of the results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The caterpillar illuminated by a small LED torch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The caterpillar fluorescing brightly. There is some movement in the creature.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They are not the best photos due to the conditions. I tried again the following night and managed to get these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Again, this is illuminated by an LED torch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This time it stayed still long enough to get a sharper image. It took several goes though!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UV fluorescence of the caterpillar on an apple leaf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One evening recently I walked around our small garden with my UV torch to see what fluoresced and was surprised to see this caterpillar – it stood out because the fluorescence was so bright. I had to research the name as I am no expert at this (I think the identification is OK). It was … Continue reading “Poplar Hawk-moth Caterpillar (Laothoe populi) in Ultra violet fluorescence”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26,129,93,3,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-close-up","category-environment","category-fluorescence","category-insects","category-photography","category-ultra-violet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8863,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions\/8863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}