see Praveen J 's photos here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malabar_Banded_Swallowtail
--- On Sun, 8/31/08, Unni Pulikkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Unni Pulikkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FW: [ButterflyIndia] More Tamil Yeomon eggs! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, August 31, 2008, 4:37 AM Thank you Susanth. I am seeing this (the eggs) for the first time. On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Susanth c <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: Krushnamegh is right.I have gud pictures of P.liomedon egg stack.I took pictures of P.liomedon(Malabar Banded Swallowtail) egg stack during the year 1996 in connection with my life cycle study of this endemic butterfly to Western Ghats.I observed 16 eggs in one egg stack and 20 in other stack.Here i attached the pictures of egg stack(11 eggs) of P.liomedon and adult butterfly.Fore more details about this study please refer my paper "Biology of Malabar Banded Swallowtail Papilio liomedon Moore" ( JBNHS, Vol.102(1),Jan- Apr 2005) with warm regards Susanth On 8/30/08, krushnamegh@ mail.utexas. edu <krushnamegh@ mail.utexas. edu> wrote: 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, bflyearlystages@ comcast.net 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 balakrishnan_ valappil@ yahoo.com To: butterfly india butterflyindia@ yahoogroups. com 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 Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Papilio demolion (Southeast.jpg (JPEG/«IC») (003786FB) Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Araschnia levana (Europe. A.jpg (JPEG/«IC») (003786FC) Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Hamadryas amphinome (Centra.jpg (JPEG/«IC») (003786FD) -- Krushnamegh Kunte ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ----- Doctoral Student (Gilbert and Juenger Labs) Postal Address: 2401 W. 24th St (and Speedway) Patterson Laboratories, Room 442 Section of Integrative Biology University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1095, USA Office: (512) 471-8240 Cell: (512) 577-1370 Fax: (512) 471-3878 Email: krushnamegh@ gmail.com Academic Website: http://www.bio. utexas.edu/ grad/krushnamegh /Moorings/ AcademicsHome. htm General Website: http://www.bio. utexas.edu/ grad/krushnamegh /Moorings/ index.htm -- Sunshines to you! unni ............ ......... ......... ......... ......... . Dr.Unni Krishnan Pulikkal ARPS www.imagery. in :: www.bafindia. org ............ ......... ......... ......... ......... . The Butterfly Art Foundation, India Pady P.O., Kodaly, Thrissur Dt., Kerala, India PIN.680699 Cell: 9446508102 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Enjoy -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
