One chrysalis is bursting at the seams! This is what is about to happen...
The newly emerged butterfly will spend its first two hours pumping hemolymph into its wings. In this way, the soft, folded wings will straighten out and become more solid, more flight-ready.
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Brilliant stuff: patience+some technology=amazing images.
No way! Slow motion is the best! oooh... but I do like time lapse... and still photography is pretty awesome... or those wrap around shots like they did in the matrix where it's just one moment but it's a video so it's from every possible angle?!!??
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No way! Slow motion is the best! oooh... but I do like time lapse... and still photography is pretty awesome... or those wrap around shots like they did in the matrix where it's just one moment but it's a video so it's from every possible angle?!!??
No way! Slow motion is the best! oooh... but I do like time lapse... and still photography is pretty awesome