Today’s post features a very small, Monarch butterfly egg that I found on a milkweed leaf in our Lake of the Ozarks (MO) church butterfly garden yesterday.
Working very carefully, I removed that leaf and relocated it to one of my mesh, butterfly enclosures at home. I have a camera and macro lens focused on the egg and hoping to capture the hatching of this little, beauty-to-be. My ultimate goal is to put together a time-lapse video of the hatching event, and following this little guy through chrysalis formation, eclosure, and release back into nature. But for now, here is what the egg looks like:
Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 body
- Canon 180mm macro lens
- Bogen 3221 tripod, with ballhead
- ISO 200
- Aperture f/9.5
- Shutter Speed 0.5 second