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I saw this, so tiny, glistening golden, under a leaf at the Butterfly Farm. It's the pupa of the common crow butterfly.

Once I loaded the shot up to the laptop, I saw that the pupa was not golden but several colours and almost glazed like stained glass.

[Sam]

This is wonderful Hazel! How lucky you were to see this :)

[Bep]

Amazing. Well spotted!

[sally agnew]

Nice capture, love the background colours :)

[Paula W]

How interesting, such subtle colour

[wendy frost]

Wonderful capture and details an amazing find and well spotted.

[Marcy]

Lovely colors on it and the background, and I like the stained glass comparison -- great capture

[Denise Wood]

Wonderful :)

[Babs]

Really interesting and well spotted.

[Anne]

Fabulous macro Hazel, such an unusual pupa

[Christine]

Great shot.

[Joanne Diochon]

I usually think of pupas as the ugly stage of butterflies but this one is quite jewel-like.

[gloria jones]

Neat shot, focus

[Catherine]

How wonderful to see this! Love the colours.

[Awesome Dawg]

Love the picture nice colors

[Terri]

Amazing capture!

[marie]

Great shot, love the colours and the focus.

[Peter]

Beautiful detail and depth of field the pupa standing out well against the diffused background, a great find Hazel:)

[KWind]

Well spotted and shot!

[Penelope Ann]

Beautiful at first sight I thought it was a shell

[Laurie E Wilson]

How awesome.

[Richard Hickey]

Awesome picture.

[Sarah Bremner]

WOW isn't nature wonderful..............think to myself what a wonderful world!