3 day old Painted Lady caterpillar next to a standard sewing needle.

The needle OD is 0.030" (.762mm) with spread of the eye 0.034" (.863mm).
The ID of the needle eye at the widest is 0.015" (.381mm).
DOF (depth of field) was extremely shallow, estimated at .040" (1.016mm).

The background is a food paste material for the caterpillar.

Shot with the FZ30 lens at 420mm plus three stacked macro lenses.
A Nikon T-6(+2.9 diop); Nikon T-5 (+1.5 diop); and Raynox CM-2000 Macro Explorer 2.5x (+8 Diop).

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