Hi Milind, Really nice collection of Jezebel Life Cycle. We really enjoied it.
To make them bit more pleasure to watch please follow http://diversityindia.org/postimage.htm Regards, Vijay --- In [email protected], Min Sb <milind.bhak...@...> wrote: > > last year i read an article in local news paper about how specific are butterflies about selecting plants to lay eggs. in that , auther wrote about common jezebel selecting a parasitic plant which grows on other trees for laying eggs. same time when i was working in my farm, i discovered a notorious plant growing on one of my pommegrenate tree. i decided to axe it but forgot. then after a few days suddenly i found that parasitic plant produced a beautiful bloom of tiny flowers and decided not to axe it ! this season , one day i found a herd of brown caterpillars on its leaves and when posted on INW forum idid as cats of common jezebel!!!! then it suddenly struck my mind that this is the parasitic plant mentioned by that auther and i kept a close vigil. last month i found eggs again and i started taking pics regularly and finally to confirm,i decided to raise these butterflies...........here are a few more pics!first pic of LORANTHUS plant and 2nd > one of eggs.........milind bhakare > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Enjoy -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
