Bhimal Ji, Thanks for sharing very important information. It is seems fireflies are eating something or sucking honey from flowers. Seems it is also one of the pollination way for Terminalia Chebula. Sharmila
On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 9:26 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Bimal ji. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Bimal Sar kar <[email protected]> > Date: 30 June 2018 at 08:09 > Subject: FIREFLY ON FLOWERS OF TERMINALIA CHEBULA : OBSERVATION > To: > > > Hello, > In today's world of artificial light around us , children are > not familiar with Firefly/Jugnu/Jonaki. I remember Cooch behar of 1972, > when there were hardly any street lights in the town, and during monsoon > one could see fireflies in action. The best firefly display I saw at > Pachmarhi . There used to be synchronized firefly display. I observed that > the display used to be mainly on Terminalia bellirica( bahera ). Those who > have seen this display only know how beautiful the event is. > Other day I wanted to capture images of butterfly on flowers of Terminalia > chebula ( ( HARITAKI/HARRA ) and got some shots of fireflies on the flowers > of the tree. My mind reeled back to the event of Pachmarhi. May be same > type of display is there in the evening on that tree but you can't see it > due to the glare of artificial lights around. > Attaching a collage of Firefly sitting on the flowers of Terminalia > chebula. > Regards, > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- around 2975 members & 2,90,000 messages on 31.3.18) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images). > > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
