Yes, I assumed it was unnecessary to mention India's Malabar Banded Swallowtail . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio_liomedon . . . to this enlightened audience. KK, Papilio gigon (http://www.treknature.com/gallery/photo121633.htm) does not lay eggs in stacks, but rather: "Several ova are usually laid together on the uppersurface of a young leaf or on an unfolding bud, although some are laid singly. Even when several ova are laid together, they are not arranged in a regular order, or do not form an ova mass." Keith From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: [ButterflyIndia] More Tamil Yeomon eggs! Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:49:47 +0000 Papilio liomedon also lays clutches in stacks. T. R. Bell observed and described this over a century ago and i think susanth has good pictures. P. liomedon is related to P. demolion, so that's no particular surprise. i wonder how P. gigon lays eggs, that also seems to be very closely related to P. demolion-liomedon. i will check whether Bell describes the stacked eggs of C. thais, he probably does because he observed its life-cycle closely. At 3:05 AM +0000 8/30/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody documented the Tamil Yeoman's (Cirrochroa thais) apparently remarkable juvenile biology? If not, this important information needs to be recorded and then published. Attached are Internet photos of other butterflies having this very rare behavior of laying eggs in long "stacks". Keith From: balakrishnan valappil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: butterfly india [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ButterflyIndia] More Tamil Yeomon eggs! Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:35:53 +0000 Thank you Baby for the wonderful shots! I have seen yeomon laying eggs last november in nilambur and photographed atleast five different stacks of eggs one of them had a live very small insect moving around(see one of the pics) possibly feeding on it(?) and one stack was fallen and had a different colour and I collected two of them carefully,tried my levelbest to preserve them but none of the eggs hatched! balakrishnan valappil --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Enjoy -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
